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Island 9 · Design & HA · Port 9.1

Designing a cluster

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You'll learn to

size a cluster for its purpose

Recap

  1. 1Purpose first: 1 node, 1 control plane, or HA
  2. 2Match nodes to workloads (SSD, GPU, labels, taints)
  3. 3Limits: 110 pods/node, 5,000 nodes, 150,000 pods
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