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

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

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

Create the LimitRange in the default-mem-example namespace

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

Now if you create a Pod in the default-mem-example namespace, and any container within that Pod does not specify its own values for memory request and memory limit, then the applies default values: a memory request of 256MiB and a memory limit of 512MiB.

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

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

View detailed information about the Pod

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

The output shows that the Pod's container has a memory request of 256 MiB and a memory limit of 512 MiB. 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-mem-demo-ctr
  resources:
    limits:
      memory: 512Mi
    requests:
      memory: 256Mi
```

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```shell
kubectl delete pod default-mem-demo --namespace=default-mem-example
```

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