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The design and architecture of OpenShift Container Platform places resource hosting limits on an OpenShift cluster. The following table shows the limits:
Resources |
Limit |
Nodes per cluster |
500 |
Pods per cluster |
62,500 |
Pods per node |
500 |
Pods per core |
Not specified limited by maximum pods per node |
Namespaces per cluster |
10,000 |
Number of builds |
10,000 (based on 512 MB RAM per image) |
Pods per namespace |
25,000 |
Services per cluster |
10,000 |
Services per namespace |
5,000 |
Back ends per service |
5,000 |
Deployments per namespace |
2,000 |
Red Hat offers support for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 up to these limits. For more information see, Planning your environment according to object maximums.