# Configure Default CPU Requests and Limits for a Namespace — Create a LimitRange and a Pod

> Here's a manifest for an example . The manifest specifies a default CPU request and a default CPU limit. Create the LimitRange in the default-cpu-example namespace Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically): ```shell kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/cpu

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Here's a manifest for an example . The manifest specifies a default CPU request and a default CPU limit.

Create the LimitRange in the default-cpu-example namespace

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/cpu-defaults.yaml --namespace=default-cpu-example
```

Now if you create a Pod in the default-cpu-example namespace, and any container in that Pod does not specify its own values for CPU request and CPU limit, then the control plane applies default values: a CPU request of 0.5 and a default CPU limit of 1.

Here's a manifest for a Pod that has one container. The container does not specify a CPU request and limit.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/cpu-defaults-pod.yaml --namespace=default-cpu-example
```

View the Pod's specification

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl get pod default-cpu-demo --output=yaml --namespace=default-cpu-example
```

The output shows that the Pod's only container has a CPU request of 500m cpu (which you can read as “500 millicpu”), and a CPU limit of 1 cpu. These are the default values specified by the LimitRange.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
containers:
- image: nginx
  imagePullPolicy: Always
  name: default-cpu-demo-ctr
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: "1"
    requests:
      cpu: 500m
```

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