How To Increase Number Of Pods Per Node

In a Shield system, each node may be up to 24 cores (max).

When a node has more than 16 cores - the default number of pods (110) should be increased.

To do that follow these steps:

Open Rancher and select the cluster to update.

Click on Nodes and then select Edit Cluster (on the right).

Select the Edit as YAML option. Under kubelet add:

extra_args:
  max-pods: 200

The recommended maximum number of pods is 200. Lower values may be entered, as desired.

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Click Save. The cluster will be updated immediately and kubelet will restart with the updated number of pods.