For convenience, Kubernetes allows you to specify CPU resource requests/limits in millicores: The expression 0.1 is equivalent to the expression 100m , which can be read as “one hundred millicpu” (some may say “one hundred millicores”, and this is understood to mean the same thing when talking about Kubernetes).

What is Millicpu in Kubernetes?

For convenience, Kubernetes allows you to specify CPU resource requests/limits in millicores: The expression 0.1 is equivalent to the expression 100m , which can be read as “one hundred millicpu” (some may say “one hundred millicores”, and this is understood to mean the same thing when talking about Kubernetes).

What does Milli CPU mean?

A Container that requests 0.5 CPU is guaranteed half as much CPU as a Container that requests 1 CPU. You can use the suffix m to mean milli. … CPU is always requested as an absolute quantity, never as a relative quantity; 0.1 is the same amount of CPU on a single-core, dual-core, or 48-core machine.