Exception Request for KEP-2837 Implementation

[Narang Dixita Sohanlal]

• Enhancement name:

• Pod Level Resource Specifications

• Enhancement status (alpha/beta/stable):

• currently in alpha, trying for beta in 1.34

• SIG

• Node, Autoscaling

• k/enhancements repo issue #:

•  https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/2837

• PR #’s:

• Promotion of feature gate to beta - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132999  

• actively being reviewed, waiting for LGTM and approval labels - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132634

• has LGTM labels, waiting on approvals https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132430

• might get approved before the code freeze - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131089

• Additional time needed (in days):

•  6 (until Wednesday)

• Reason this enhancement is critical for this milestone:

• Postponing the beta launch of this feature would drastically slow both adoption and our ability to gather essential feedback.

• Risks from adding code late: (to k8s stability, testing, etc.)

• The risk is minimal as this feature requires setting resources in pod spec at pod-level explicitly, because of which the code path is isolated.

• The feature is actively reviewed and tested.

• Risks from cutting enhancement: (partial implementation, critical customer usecase, etc.)

• This enhancement is key for AI/ML workloads and boosts resource use. It handles their unpredictable resource needs, especially when it's hard to decide resource allocation upfront for each container. It also lays the groundwork for the Dynamic Containers proposal. We haven't been able to drive adoption of this feature as it is still in alpha, delaying the beta further would slow down the feature adoption.

[Narang Dixita Sohanlal]

Update - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/131089 is already approved

[Dawn Chen]

Approve the exception request from SIG Node perspective. 

Thanks Dixi. 

[Narang Dixita Sohanlal]

Update:

Instead of #132634, the changes were made in #133279 (have lgtm and approval labels) as the main author is OOO. 

On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM Raymond Wainman <raywa...@gmail.com> wrote:

No concerns from sig-autoscaling.

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