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Ask HN: Is there software to manage hundreds of containers per CPU core?
e.g. a 32-core host running 8,192 containers.
Such containers would require a small CPU & RAM footprint :-)
This implies it's possible:
[1] https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/06/11/how-many-containers-can-you-run-on-your-machine
Kubernetes has a default limit of 110 pods/node, and perhaps a max of ~250:
[2] https://prefetch.net/blog/2018/02/10/the-kubernetes-110-pod-limit-per-node/
K8s permits numerous containers/pod but its unit of mgmt is the pod, IIUC.
- networkimprov 8y agoHere are the links, live: [1] https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/06/11/how-many-containers-can-you-run-on-your-machine https://blog.ubuntu.com/2015/06/11/how-many-containers-can-y... [2] https://prefetch.net/blog/2018/02/10/the-kubernetes-110-pod-limit-per-node/ https://prefetch.net/blog/2018/02/10/the-kubernetes-110-pod-...
- dankohn1 8y agoYou can set K8s to increase the max pods per node. https://prefetch.net/blog/2018/02/10/the-kubernetes-110-pod-limit-per-node/ https://prefetch.net/blog/2018/02/10/the-kubernetes-110-pod-...