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Cluster Overprovisioner

  • https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/node-overprovisioning/
  • It's possible to create pre-warmed nodes with pause/dummy pods. Each dummy pod will accommodate itself in a node alone
  • This purposely over-provisions the cluster in order to give headroom for a sudden spike of load
  • It's also possible to set the number of dummy pods proportional to the total number of nodes in the cluster