I have a Kubernetes cluster running several review environments. According to the graphs on in the Digital Ocean console, it’s CPU usage is at ~10%, with at most spikes up to 30% CPU. Yet, when I try to deploy a Helm chart, I see my pod has the following status:
status:
conditions:
- lastProbeTime: null
lastTransitionTime: "2020-07-01T13:54:51Z"
message: '0/4 nodes are available: 4 Insufficient cpu.'
reason: Unschedulable
status: "False"
type: PodScheduled
What could be causing this?
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Hi there,
I would check to see what requests for CPU are being made by the desired chart. Keep in mind that the full system resources are not available to pods as each node does require overhead for system processes and containerized infrastructure.
You can see the available memory chart for our node sizes here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/#allocatable-memory
That does not list the requests for CPU but looking at my own cluster in kube-system the default kube-system pods request almost ~700m or 70% of all the CPU available on a 1 CPU node.
You have a few options here:
-
Use larger nodes. This step would require the least amount of effort as there’s no need to change any app configuration. It also directly addresses the underlying problem of not having enough resources in the cluster.
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remove/reduce your helm chart’s requests. This is an okay option to get it past the deployment step but is normally not a good idea as it could overload your cluster and cause outages for other applications.
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Reduce your workloads to make room for the new deployment. Getting rid of other resource heavy workloads would free up space for this deployment
I personally would just recommend the simplest path, which would to be to use larger nodes. Hope this helps!
Regards,
John Kwiatkoski Senior Developer Support Engineer - Kubernetes
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