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Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)
Kubernetes v1.36 rolled out Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, allowing performance-critical pods to allocate exclusive, NUMA-aligned resources to main application containers while sidecars share a separate pod-level resource pool. The enhancement solves a longstanding trade-off where users previously had to either waste resources by giving every container (including lightweight sidecars) exclusive CPU allocations or forfeit the pod's Guaranteed QoS class entirely, with practical applications for ML training, high-frequency trading, and low-latency databases.
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