Chapter 8: Node feature selection
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Different Pods may request more or less CPU, but they’re all running on the same type of nodes under the hood.
One of the fundamental properties of cloud computing is that even when you’re using an abstract platform that takes care of much of the low-level compute provisioning for you as Kubernetes platforms are capable of doing, you may still care to some extent about the servers that are actually running your workloads. Serverless is a nice concept, but at the end of the day, the workload is running on a computer, and you can’t always escape the properties of that machine, nor do you always want to.