Author: Francesco Romani (Red Hat)
The CPU Manager is a part of the kubelet, the Kubernetes node agent, which enables the user to allocate exclusive CPUs to containers.Since Kubernetes v1.10, where it graduated to Beta, the CPU Manager proved itself reliable and fulfilled its role of allocating exclusive CPUs to containers, so adoption has steadily grown making it a staple component of performance-critical and low-latency setups.Over time, most changes were about bugfixes or internal refactoring, with the following noteworthy user-visible changes:
support explicit reservation of CPUs