[JanMa]

I've learned the hard way that CPU resource limits in K8S are a bad idea, as can be seen in this post. Just use CPU requests without limits so the scheduler has an estimate of your applications CPU requirements, but it can burst to use more CPU when it's available.

With memory of course you should set a limit and from experience it should be the same as your memory requests.

[cassianoleal]

This, very much. With memory, I have seen one or two use cases where it made sense to have bigger limits than requests but it's the exception rather than the norm.

[JeremyTheo]

There is also the concern that a single pod shouldn’t be able to take down an entire node. So there needs to be some safety levels. But then also not. I find this is a really complex issue which is not widely known (only in Kubernetes bubble)

[ralgozino]

you can reserve node resources for system processes so the pods don't kill the node using some kubelet parameters: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/reserve-...