# Resource Quotas — Example

> This example creates a ResourceQuota matches it with pods at specific priorities.

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This example creates a ResourceQuota matches it with pods at specific priorities. The example works as follows

Pods in the cluster have one of the three PriorityClasses, "low", "medium", "high". If you want to try this out, use a testing cluster and set up those three PriorityClasses before you continue. One quota object is created for each priority.

Inspect this set of ResourceQuotas

Apply the YAML using kubectl create.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl create -f https://k8s.io/examples/policy/quota.yaml
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
resourcequota/pods-high created
resourcequota/pods-medium created
resourcequota/pods-low created
```

Verify that Used quota is 0 using kubectl describe quota.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl describe quota
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
Name:       pods-high
Namespace:  default
Resource    Used  Hard
--------    ----  ----
cpu         0     1k
memory      0     200Gi
pods        0     10


Name:       pods-low
Namespace:  default
Resource    Used  Hard
--------    ----  ----
cpu         0     5
memory      0     10Gi
pods        0     10


Name:       pods-medium
Namespace:  default
Resource    Used  Hard
--------    ----  ----
cpu         0     10
memory      0     20Gi
pods        0     10
```

Create a pod with priority "high".

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl create -f https://k8s.io/examples/policy/high-priority-pod.yaml
```

Verify that "Used" stats for "high" priority quota, pods-high, has changed and that the other two quotas are unchanged.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl describe quota
```

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