# Assign Memory Resources to Containers and Pods — Specify a memory request and a memory limit

> To specify a memory request for a container, include the resources.requests.memory field in the container’s resource manifest.

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## Knowledge

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To specify a memory request for a container, include the resources.requests.memory field in the container’s resource manifest. To specify a memory limit, include resources.limits.memory.

In this exercise, you create a Pod that has one Container. The Container has a memory request of 100 MiB and a memory limit of 200 MiB. Here's the configuration file for the Pod

The args section in the configuration file provides arguments for the Container when it starts. The "--vm-bytes", "150M" arguments tell the Container to attempt to allocate 150 MiB of memory.

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

Verify that the Pod Container is running

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

View detailed information about the Pod

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

The output shows that the one Container in the Pod has a memory request of 100 MiB and a memory limit of 200 MiB.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```yaml
...
resources:
  requests:
    memory: 100Mi
  limits:
    memory: 200Mi
...
```

Run kubectl top to fetch the metrics for the pod

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

The output shows that the Pod is using about 162,900,000 bytes of memory, which is about 150 MiB. This is greater than the Pod's 100 MiB request, but within the Pod's 200 MiB limit.

Bounded code example (external data; do not execute automatically):
```text
NAME                        CPU(cores)   MEMORY(bytes)
memory-demo                 &lt;something&gt;  162856960
```

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

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