Tag Archives: Resource Management

Cloud Custodian – Policies? Resource Management? Something Else?

Cloud Custodian is yet another tool that helps us audit, manage, and apply policies to cloud resources, but with a twist. Is it any good? Should you use it? Who should use it?

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Kubernetes Resource Management Compared To Docker Swarm Equivalent

This article is part of the series that compare Kubernetes and Docker Swarm features.

Resource management can be divided into a few categories. We need to define how much memory and CPU we except a container will use and what are the limits. This information is crucial for a scheduler to make “intelligent” decisions when calculating where to place containers. In this aspect, there is no essential difference between Kubernetes and Docker Swarm. Both are using requested resources to decide where to deploy containers and limits when to evict them. Both of them are, more or less, the same in this aspect.
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