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Platform & DevOps·Running it: capacity, failure and recovery

one team's runaway job could not consume the whole cluster, because their slice had a declared ceiling.

Resource quota

Also callednamespace quota, tenant quota, limit range

A cap on how much of a shared cluster one team, namespace or tenant may request. It is the main tool that makes a shared platform politically viable, since it converts 'someone took all the capacity' from an incident into a rejected request. It also relocates the argument to quota allocation, which is the correct place for it, and requires an obvious, fast path to raising one.

Commonly confused with