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Per-Container Resource Management

In this lab, you need to instate a per-container resource management. Each container needs to be configured to individually not use more than 1 CPU. Apart from that, you also need to configure each container to individually not use more than 50% of RAM.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

45m

Published

Apr 03, 2020

Challenge

Open Three Terminals and Three Sessions to the Lab Server
1. Open three terminal sessions.
2. In each one, log in to the server using the credentials provided:
```
ssh cloud_user@<PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS>
```

Challenge

Run Two Python Containers with Set Limits 50% CPU and 500M RAM

sudo docker run -it --rm --cpus="0.5" --memory=500m docker.io/python

sudo docker run -it --rm --cpus="0.5" --memory=500m docker.io/python

Challenge

Run Tests to See Your Resource Limits Take Effect

In each container, run this code and observe the resource usage with htop in the third terminal session:

import threading

def test():
  while True:
    1000*1000

threading.Thread(target=test).start()
threading.Thread(target=test).start()
threading.Thread(target=test).start()
threading.Thread(target=test).start()
threading.Thread(target=test).start()

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