This page provides an overview of available configuration options and best practices for cluster multi-tenancy. Sharing clusters saves costs and simplifies administration. However, sharing clusters also presents challenges such as security, fairness, and managing noisy neighbors. Clusters can be shared in many ways. In some cases, different applications may run in the same cluster. In other cases, multiple instances of the same application may run in the same cluster, one for each end user.

FEATURE STATE: Kubernetes v1.35 [stable](enabled by default) This page describes dynamic resource allocation (DRA) in Kubernetes. About DRA DRA is a Kubernetes feature that lets you request and share resources among Pods. These resources are often attached devices like hardware accelerators. With DRA, device drivers and cluster admins define device classes that are available to claim in workloads. Kubernetes allocates matching devices to specific claims and places the corresponding Pods on nodes that can access the allocated devices.

In the scheduling-plugin NodeResourcesFit of kube-scheduler, there are two scoring strategies that support the bin packing of resources: MostAllocated and RequestedToCapacityRatio. Enabling bin packing using MostAllocated strategy The MostAllocated strategy scores the nodes based on the utilization of resources, favoring the ones with higher allocation. For each resource type, you can set a weight to modify its influence in the node score. To set the MostAllocated strategy for the NodeResourcesFit plugin, use a scheduler configuration similar to the following:

Make your HTTP (or HTTPS) network service available using a protocol-aware configuration mechanism, that understands web concepts like URIs, hostnames, paths, and more. The Ingress concept lets you map traffic to different backends based on rules you define via the Kubernetes API.

Learn about ServiceAccount objects in Kubernetes.

You've deployed your application and exposed it via a Service. Now what? Kubernetes provides a number of tools to help you manage your application deployment, including scaling and updating. Organizing resource configurations Many applications require multiple resources to be created, such as a Deployment along with a Service. Management of multiple resources can be simplified by grouping them together in the same file (separated by --- in YAML). For example:

A DaemonSet defines Pods that provide node-local facilities. These might be fundamental to the operation of your cluster, such as a networking helper tool, or be part of an add-on.

Jobs represent one-off tasks that run to completion and then stop.

Gateway API is a family of API kinds that provide dynamic infrastructure provisioning and advanced traffic routing.

Kubernetes can be configured to use swap memory on a node, allowing the kernel to free up physical memory by swapping out pages to backing storage. This is useful for multiple use-cases. For example, nodes running workloads that can benefit from using swap, such as those that have large memory footprints but only access a portion of that memory at any given time. It also helps prevent Pods from being terminated during memory pressure spikes, shields nodes from system-level memory spikes that might compromise its stability, allows for more flexible memory management on the node, and much more.