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What is the difference between resource requests and resource limits in Kubernetes, and what happens if limits are exceeded?

Tests whether you know exceeding a CPU limit throttles the pod while exceeding a memory limit gets it OOMKilled outright.

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What is the difference between resource requests and resource limits in Kubernetes, and what happens if limits are exceeded?

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