How do y'all manage resource quotas for namespaces...
# kubernetesr
Regan Manning
07/17/2025, 7:02 PMHow do y'all manage resource quotas for namespaces? Are there tools that make it easier to detect growth and scale automatically? Or am I at the mercy of how well I have my monitoring platform configured?
Regan Manning
07/17/2025, 7:04 PMRight now I put it on the developers to try to calculate how much they need in their service's namespace but that is proving to be difficult (increasing cognitive load). I want to be able to set a ceiling + let namespaces automatically grow and shrink. Google appears to have made an in-house tool for it but I have not seen anything published.
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Nick Travis
07/17/2025, 7:11 PMThere are a ton of tools that help with this, depending on what you want to automate or constrain people by.
Nick Travis
07/17/2025, 7:11 PMVendors like Datadog have increasingly made monitoring and automation possible, but lots of specialists like scaleops as an example
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Regan Manning
07/17/2025, 7:12 PMI have new relic but their k8s tools are kind of lacking outside of APM and host metrics
Regan Manning
07/17/2025, 7:12 PMDD deff has better k8s features from when I used it last
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Andrew Kirkpatrick
07/17/2025, 8:04 PMHRQ with Hierarchial Namespace Controller was a possibility user-guide/concepts.md#hrq but looks like SIG decided to stop maintaining it issues/5484
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Mykola Dzham
07/18/2025, 6:15 AMWe don’t. We encourage using VPA and then just monitor clusters’ resource utilization and reach teams who request a a lot of resources and don’t use them
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Erick de Carty
07/19/2025, 4:36 AMIt sounds like your app teams would benefit from the platform handling autoscaling and rightsizing of workloads. There are a few vendor tools in this space...
• Cast.ai
• StormForge
• ScaleOps
Note: Kubernetes 1.33 announced In-Place Pod Resize Graduated to Beta
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