diff --git a/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/qos-class.md b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/qos-class.md new file mode 100755 index 0000000000..6ecd3e402a --- /dev/null +++ b/content/en/docs/reference/glossary/qos-class.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: QoS Class +id: qos-class +date: 2019-04-15 +full_link: +short_description: > + QoS Class (Quality of Service Class) provides a way for Kubernetes to classify pods within the cluster into several classes and make decisions about scheduling and eviction. + +aka: +tags: +- core-object +- fundamental +- architecture +related: + - pod + +--- + QoS Class (Quality of Service Class)) provides a way for Kubernetes to classify Pods within the cluster into several classes and make decisions about scheduling and eviction. + + +QoS Class of a Pod is set at creation time based on its compute resources requests and limits settings. QoS classes are used to make decisions about Pods scheduling and eviction. +Kubernetes can assign one of the following QoS classes to a Pod: `Guaranteed`, `Burstable` or `BestEffort`. + +