k8s too much for 1GB/1CPU single node pool

I have a single node (1GB/1vCPU) cluster that I run some very low-traffic stuff on.

I loved DO because for I could keep my hosting costs (on k8s) to about $25 ($12 for ingress/$12 for the node, and whatever for storage) – amazing.

Recently I had to upgrade to 1.23.10-do.0 – the upgrade was forced, but no big deal. However, when the upgrade finished the CPU requests exceeded the available CPU.

According to kubectl describe nodes, I get (this text is edited for simplicity):

...
Allocatable:
  cpu:                900m
...
  Name                                              CPU 
  ----                                              ----
  ingress-nginx-controller-7868b8f99b-7g8lp         100m
  cilium-ng6ww                                      310m
  cilium-operator-c9bf9575f-dtmfc                   100m
  coredns-d4c49d69-dwvx9                            100m
  coredns-d4c49d69-zlj79                            100m
  cpc-bridge-proxy-d22g9                            100m
  do-node-agent-z6p2v                               102m  

So, in the base deployment alone we have 912 CPU requested of an available 900. In its infinite wisdom, kubernetes decided the ingress controller was the best pod to keep down, so everything was effectively down.

To fix it, i manually lowered the CPU request for ingress to 50, but I am no concerned the base offering will not work after upgrade going forward. I expect I’ll have to make a manual correction after every future upgrade.

Is there a “hands off” approach to fixing this? Without doubling my hosting costs I can’t get a system that offers enough CPU to meet the reservation requests on the base offering.

Thanks,