[Devtools] [openshift-sme] minishift 20 pod limit

[Burr Sutter]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Hugo Guerrero <hguerrero at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Well, so minishift ships with the default values for both documented
> kubeArguments. The important one is the pods-per-core as "10" is the
> default value. So if you start your minishift with just 2 cores that's the
> max ammount of pods you will get as the "the lower of the two limits the
> number of pods on a node". No matter how many max-pods you put, you still
> we limited by pods-per-core. So if you add more cores you will get more
> pods available up to "max-pods". Or just change the pods-per-core and still
> use the same amount of cpus.
>
> The editing place is on /var/lib/minishift/openshift.local.config/node-localhost/node-config.yaml
> unless you modified it in the start command.
>

I see that file on my minishift but line do I edit?
I do not see a pods-per-core entry

and once edited, do I need to "restart" something to get the setting to
take effect.


>
> *Hugo*
>
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM, Hugo Guerrero <hguerrero at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Burr, the default size of the minishift VM is just 1 core and 4GB ram,
>>> you will run out of pods easily as it will support max 20 pods. You can
>>> increase the cores associated with the VM and the memory to allow more pods
>>> to be deployed. I just added 4 cores instead of 1 and was able to deploy
>>> all my pods.
>>>
>>
>> There is still a fixed 20 pod limit for the Node as demonstrated by
>> Graham's url to the docs.
>>
>> oc describe node allows you to see all the pods and the fact that I am at
>> the limit.
>>
>> I am just not sure how to change the variable.
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Hugo*
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 6:56 PM, Burr Sutter <bsutter at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I finally figured out why I had pods that would not deploy, there is a
>>>> 20 pod max on minishift.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen a way to tweak that limit?
>>>>
>>>> And can you update it on a live system?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Have a question?
>>>> First, check the FAQ: https://pnt.redhat.com/pnt/p-7
>>>> 34673/openshift-con...-Jun-2017.pdf
>>>> Next, check the archives: http://post-office.corp.redhat
>>>> .com/archives/openshift-sme/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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