Self-Correcting Dynamic Quota: A Kubernetes Quota Policy Where Hoarding Is  Automatically Self-Defeating

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Praneeth Ganta, Murali M. Chittabathini

Self-Correcting Dynamic Quota: A Kubernetes Quota Policy Where Hoarding Is Automatically Self-Defeating

Authors

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Praneeth Ganta, Murali M. Chittabathini

Keywords:

kubernetes, resource quota, multi-tenancy, mechanism design, repeated games, incentive compatibility, budget balance, fair allocation, platform engineering, cluster utilization

Abstract

Every platform team running sharedKubernetes knows the pathology: tenants over-request. A namespace that needs four cores asks for sixteen, becausequotas are sticky, reclamation is painful, and hoarding isindividually rational. The cluster appears full at a fractionof real utilisation, the quota system rewards

References

B. N. Chun and D. E. Culler, “Market-based proportional resource sharing for clusters,” Univ. California, Berkeley, Tech. Rep. CSD-00-1092, 2000.

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Published

2026-06-24

How to Cite

Pradeep Kandepaneni, Saketh Gowerneni, Vasu Babu Narra, Praneeth Ganta, Murali M. Chittabathini. (2026). Self-Correcting Dynamic Quota: A Kubernetes Quota Policy Where Hoarding Is Automatically Self-Defeating . Journal of Computational Analysis and Applications (JoCAAA), 35(6), 214–219. Retrieved from https://www.eudoxuspress.com/index.php/pub/article/view/5631