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Memory Requests Equal Limits

Pods which have memory limits equal to requests could be given a QoS class of Guaranteed if they also set CPU limits equal to requests. Guaranteed is the highest schedulable class. This policy checks that all containers in a given Pod have memory requests equal to limits.

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Policy Definition

apiVersion: kyverno.io/v1
kind: ClusterPolicy
metadata:
name: memory-requests-equal-limits
annotations:
policies.kyverno.io/title: Memory Requests Equal Limits
policies.kyverno.io/category: Sample
policies.kyverno.io/severity: medium
policies.kyverno.io/subject: Pod
policies.kyverno.io/minversion: 1.6.0
policies.kyverno.io/description: Pods which have memory limits equal to requests could be given a QoS class of Guaranteed if they also set CPU limits equal to requests. Guaranteed is the highest schedulable class. This policy checks that all containers in a given Pod have memory requests equal to limits.
spec:
validationFailureAction: Audit
background: false
rules:
- name: memory-requests-equal-limits
match:
any:
- resources:
kinds:
- Pod
validate:
message: resources.requests.memory must be equal to resources.limits.memory
deny:
conditions:
any:
- key: "{{ request.object.spec.containers[?resources.requests.memory!=resources.limits.memory] | length(@) }}"
operator: NotEquals
value: 0

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