# Assign Pod-level CPU and memory resources — Create a pod with resource requests and limits at both pod-level and container-level

> To assign CPU and memory resources to a Pod, you can specify them at both the pod level and the container level.

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## Knowledge

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To assign CPU and memory resources to a Pod, you can specify them at both the pod level and the container level. Include the resources field in the Pod spec to define resources for the entire Pod. Additionally, include the resources field within container's specification in the Pod's manifest to set container-specific resource requirements.

In this exercise, you'll create a Pod with two containers to explore the interaction of pod-level and container-level resource specifications. The Pod itself will have defined CPU requests and limits, while only one of the containers will have its own explicit resource requests and limits. The other container will inherit the resource constraints from the pod-level settings. Here's the configuration file for the Pod

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

Verify that the Pod Container is running

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

View detailed information about the Pod

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

The output shows that one container in the Pod has a memory request of 50 MiB and a CPU request of 0.5 cores, with a memory limit of 100 MiB and a CPU limit of 0.5 cores. The Pod itself has a memory request of 100 MiB and a CPU request of 1 core, and a memory limit of 200 MiB and a CPU limit of 1 core.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
...
  containers:
  -
    name: pod-resources-demo-ctr-1
    resources:
      limits:
        cpu: 500m
        memory: 100Mi
      requests:
        cpu: 500m
        memory: 50Mi
...
  -
    name: pod-resources-demo-ctr-2
    resources: {}
...
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: "1"
      memory: 200Mi
    requests:
      cpu: "1"
      memory: 100Mi
...
``` …

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