kubespray/docs/operations/cgroups.md

cgroups

To avoid resource contention between containers and host daemons in Kubernetes, the kubelet components can use cgroups to limit resource usage.

Enforcing Node Allocatable

You can use kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable to set node allocatable enforcement.

# A comma separated list of levels of node allocatable enforcement to be enforced by kubelet.
kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable: "pods"
# kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable: "pods,kube-reserved"
# kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable: "pods,kube-reserved,system-reserved"

Note that to enforce kube-reserved or system-reserved, kube_reserved_cgroups or system_reserved_cgroups needs to be specified respectively.

Here is an example:

kubelet_enforce_node_allocatable: "pods,kube-reserved,system-reserved"

# Set kube_reserved to true to run kubelet and container-engine daemons in a dedicated cgroup.
# This is required if you want to enforce limits on the resource usage of these daemons.
# It is not required if you just want to make resource reservations (kube_memory_reserved, kube_cpu_reserved, etc.)
kube_reserved: true
kube_reserved_cgroups_for_service_slice: kube.slice
kube_reserved_cgroups: "/{{ kube_reserved_cgroups_for_service_slice }}"
kube_memory_reserved: 256Mi
kube_cpu_reserved: 100m
# kube_ephemeral_storage_reserved: 2Gi
# kube_pid_reserved: "1000"

# Set to true to reserve resources for system daemons
system_reserved: true
system_reserved_cgroups_for_service_slice: system.slice
system_reserved_cgroups: "/{{ system_reserved_cgroups_for_service_slice }}"
system_memory_reserved: 512Mi
system_cpu_reserved: 500m
# system_ephemeral_storage_reserved: 2Gi
# system_pid_reserved: "1000"

After the setup, the cgroups hierarchy is as follows:

/ (Cgroups Root)
├── kubepods.slice
│   ├── ...
│   ├── kubepods-besteffort.slice
│   ├── kubepods-burstable.slice
│   └── ...
├── kube.slice
│   ├── ...
│   ├── {{container_manager}}.service
│   ├── kubelet.service
│   └── ...
├── system.slice
│   └── ...
└── ...

You can learn more in the official kubernetes documentation.