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Kubernetes tools

When you reach for Kubernetes tools.

Kubernetes resource numbers are easy to write and hard to reason about. A container asking for 250m CPU and 512Mi memory is unremarkable on its own; the same manifest at 40 replicas with two sidecars is a scheduling decision, and nothing in the YAML tells you that.

The units actively work against you. Millicores are thousandths of a core. Mi is 1,048,576 bytes and M is 1,000,000 — a distinction that quietly matters when you multiply by replica count. Requests decide scheduling and eviction order; limits decide whether you get OOMKilled. Confusing the two is behind a large share of "the pod keeps restarting and there is nothing in the logs".

These tools total what a workload actually reserves across containers and replicas, and test label selectors against real objects so you find out that a selector matches nothing before a Service silently routes to no pods.