Configuring Compute Resources for the connectware-agent Helm Chart

Compute resource requests are used by Kubernetes to schedule workloads on a node that has the required resources available. Compute resource limits are used to limit a workloads consumption.

In order to be scheduled in Kubernetes highest Quality of Service class, agents installed through the connectware-agent Helm chart come with a default of using the same value for requests and limits. These values are:

Resource	Value (request and limit)
CPU	2000m
Memory	2000Mi

To adjust the compute resources for the agent, specify a Kubernetes Quantity for cpu and memory for resources.requests and resources.limits inside the agents entry in protocolMapperAgents context of your values.yaml file.

Example

licenseKey: <your-connectware-license-key>
protocolMapperAgents:
  - name: bender-robots
    connectwareHost: connectware.cybus # adjust to actual hostname of Connectware
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 1000m
        memory: 1500Mi
      limits:
        cpu: 3000m
        memory: 2500Mi

Hint: cpu is usually specified in m, representing “Milli-CPU”, with 1000m roughly meaning one CPU core. memory is usually specified in Mi, representing “Mebibytes”.

Removing Default Values

In order to be scheduled in Kubernetes highest Quality of Service class, agents installed through the connectware-agent Helm chart come with a default of using the same value for requests and limits. These values are:

Resource	Value (request and limit)
CPU	2000m
Memory	2000Mi

To remove either you can set the value resources.request and resources.limits inside the agents entry in protocolMapperAgents context of your values.yaml file to an empty YAML object {}.

Example

licenseKey: <your-connectware-license-key>
protocolMapperAgents:
  - name: bender-robots
    connectwareHost: connectware.cybus # adjust to actual hostname of Connectware
    resources:
      limits: {} # Limits are removed from this agent

You can also completely remove resource definitions by setting resources inside the agents entry in protocolMapperAgents context of your values.yaml file to an empty YAML object {}.

Example

licenseKey: <your-connectware-license-key>
protocolMapperAgents:
  - name: bender-robots
    connectwareHost: connectware.cybus # adjust to actual hostname of Connectware
    resources: {} # No resources are specified for this agent

Full Example: Individual Resources for a Single Agent

In this example, we will set lower default resources, but for our agent welder-robots we will request more resources and remove limits, as we do want it to not be limited for its important work.

Example

licenseKey: <your-connectware-license-key>
protocolMapperAgentDefaults:
  connectwareHost: connectware.cybus # adjust to actual hostname of Connectware
  resources:
    requests:
      cpu: 500m
      memory: 500Mi
    limits:
      cpu: 1500m
      memory: 2000Mi
protocolMapperAgents:
  - name: bender-robots # this agent will have the default resources
  - name: welder-robots # this agent will have more resource requests and no limits
    resources:
      requests:
        cpu: 2000m
        memory: 2000Mi
      limits: {}
  - name: painter-robots # this agent will have the default resources