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Aleksander Roszig
April 4, 2026
Kubernetes Resource Management: CPU Request and Limit in Practice
Kubernetes has been with us for 11 years now, and resource management is one of its most fundamental functions. Yet it remains one of the most common issues we observe in projects. Many people don’t know how to properly use resource management mechanisms or use them incorrectly. It’s still one of the most discussed topics in the Kubernetes world. In this article, I’d like to explain how CPU request and CPU limit work. In this post, we’ll focus on CPU, and in the next part (Kubernetes memory request and limit), we’ll discuss memory management.