If you just run Kubernetes with the default settings, that’s correct. You will need to enable the so-called static cpu manager policy on kubelets to make it use

If you just run Kubernetes with the default settings, that’s correct. You will need to enable the so-called static cpu manager policy on kubelets to make it use cpusets based on CPU requests & limits. https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-management-policies/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/cpu-mana... A somewhat annoying thing about this option is that even though it can create cpusets for every container individually, it only gets enabled in case all containers in the pod use an integer number of CPUs, which seems unnecessary.