Setting Multi-Project Quotas

Overview

A multi-project quota, defined by a **ClusterResourceQuota** object, allows quotas to be shared across multiple projects. Resources used in each selected project will be aggregated and that aggregate will be used to limit resources across all the selected projects.

Selecting Projects

You can select projects based on annotation selection, label selection, or both. For example, to select projects based on annotations, run the following command:

  1. $ oc create clusterquota for-user \
  2.      --project-annotation-selector openshift.io/requester=<user-name> \
  3.      --hard pods=10 \
  4.      --hard secrets=20

It creates the following ClusterResourceQuota object:

  1. apiVersion: v1
  2. kind: ClusterResourceQuota
  3. metadata:
  4.   name: for-user
  5. spec:
  6.   quota: (1)
  7.     hard:
  8.       pods: "10"
  9.       secrets: "20"
  10.   selector:
  11.     annotations: (2)
  12.       openshift.io/requester: <user-name>
  13.     labels: null (3)
  14. status:
  15.   namespaces: (4)
  16.   - namespace: ns-one
  17.     status:
  18.       hard:
  19.         pods: "10"
  20.         secrets: "20"
  21.       used:
  22.         pods: "1"
  23.         secrets: "9"
  24.   total: (5)
  25.     hard:
  26.       pods: "10"
  27.       secrets: "20"
  28.     used:
  29.       pods: "1"
  30.       secrets: "9"
1The ResourceQuotaSpec object that will be enforced over the selected projects.
2A simple key/value selector for annotations.
3A label selector that can be used to select projects.
4A per-namespace map that describes current quota usage in each selected project.
5The aggregate usage across all selected projects.

This multi-project quota document controls all projects requested by using the default project request endpoint. You are limited to 10 pods and 20 secrets.

Similarly, to select projects based on labels, run this command:

  1. $  oc create clusterresourcequota for-name \ (1)
  2.     --project-label-selector=name=frontend \ (2)
  3.     --hard=pods=10 --hard=secrets=20
1Both clusterresourcequota and clusterquota are aliases of the same command. for-name is the name of the clusterresourcequota object.
2To select projects by label, provide a key-value pair by using the format —project-label-selector=key=value.

It creates the following ClusterResourceQuota object definition:

  1. apiVersion: v1
  2. kind: ClusterResourceQuota
  3. metadata:
  4.   creationTimestamp: null
  5.   name: for-name
  6. spec:
  7.   quota:
  8.     hard:
  9.       pods: "10"
  10.       secrets: "20"
  11.   selector:
  12.     annotations: null
  13.     labels:
  14.       matchLabels:
  15.         name: frontend

Viewing Applicable ClusterResourceQuotas

A project administrator is not allowed to create or modify the multi-project quota that limits his or her project, but the administrator is allowed to view the multi-project quota documents that are applied to his or her project. The project administrator can do this via the **AppliedClusterResourceQuota** resource.

  1. $ oc describe AppliedClusterResourceQuota

produces:

  1. Name:   for-user
  2. Namespace:  <none>
  3. Created:  19 hours ago
  4. Labels:   <none>
  5. Annotations:  <none>
  6. Label Selector: <null>
  7. AnnotationSelector: map[openshift.io/requester:<user-name>]
  8. Resource  Used  Hard
  9. --------  ----  ----
  10. pods        1     10
  11. secrets     9     20

Selection Granularity

Because of the locking consideration when claiming quota allocations, the number of active projects selected by a multi-project quota is an important consideration. Selecting more than 100 projects under a single multi-project quota may have detrimental effects on API server responsiveness in those projects.