EKS Bare Metal with CPU Manager Configured

README.md

Setup for EKS Bare Metal with CPU Manager Configured

This provisions an EKS cluster with CPU Management Policies confiured to static.

The instance type in the node group is m5.metal.

Setup

$ # Provision EKS Cluster
$ eksctl create cluster -f ./cluster-config.yaml

Deploy an Application with Guaranteed QoS

$ kubectl apply -f sample-app.yaml

cluster-config.yaml

apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5
kind: ClusterConfig

metadata:
  name: bare-metal
  region: eu-west-1

nodeGroups:
- name: ng-cpu-managed
  instanceType: m5.metal
  desiredCapacity: 2
  placement:
    groupName: sample-placement-group
  ssh:
    enableSsm: true
  kubeletExtraConfig:
    cpuManagerPolicy: static

sample-app.yaml

apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  creationTimestamp: null
  labels:
    app: qos-cpu-manager
  name: qos-cpu-manager
spec:
  replicas: 1
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: qos-cpu-manager
  strategy: {}
  template:
    metadata:
      creationTimestamp: null
      labels:
        app: qos-cpu-manager
    spec:
      containers:
      - image: nginx
        name: nginx
        resources:
          limits:
            memory: "200Mi"
            cpu: "2"