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Your Nodes Are Not Idle, They Are Reserved: The Requests Trap In Karpenter Consolidation
An EKS cluster refused to consolidate while dashboards showed nodes at 10% CPU. The scheduler was reading resource requests, not utilization, and one workload requested 250x what it used.
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Reality
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