Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)

Kubernetes v1.36 introduces Pod-Level Resource Managers as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet’s Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers to support pod-level resource specifications ( .spec.resources ), evolving them from a strictly per-container allocation model to a pod-centric one. Why do we need pod-level resource managers?