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KEP-6386keps/sig-node/6386-pod-level-ephemeral-storage

Ephemeral Storage Support for Pod-Level Resource Specifications

implementablealphasig-nodelatest v1.38
KEP-2837: Pod Level Resource Specifications introduced the resources field at the PodSpec level (pod.spec.resources), allowing users to define aggregate compute resource requests and limits shared across all containers in a Pod. However, KEP-2837 initially scoped support strictly to CPU, memory, and hugepages-*, deferring ephemeral-storage to a future enhanc… Full summary

KEP-2837: Pod Level Resource Specifications introduced the resources field at the PodSpec level (pod.spec.resources), allowing users to define aggregate compute resource requests and limits shared across all containers in a Pod. However, KEP-2837 initially scoped support strictly to CPU, memory, and hugepages-*, deferring ephemeral-storage to a future enhancement. This KEP proposes extending Pod-Level Resource Specifications to support ephemeral-storage (pod.spec.resources.requests[ephemeral-storage] and pod.spec.resources.limits[ephemeral-storage]), gated by a new dedicated feature gate: PodLevelResourcesEphemeralStorage. This aligns ephemeral storage with KEP-2837 and allows multi-container Pods to manage a unified Pod-level ephemeral storage budget across container writable layers, container logs, and disk-backed emptyDir volumes.

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Authors
@ndixita
Approvers
@dchen1107
PRR approvers
@johnbelamaricalpha
Tracking issue
#6386(opens GitHub in a new tab) openmilestone v1.38sig/nodesig/storagestage/alphatracked/yeslead-opted-in
Milestones
alpha v1.38beta v1.39stable v1.41
Participating SIGs
sig-storage
Feature gates
PodLevelResourcesEphemeralStorage
Created / last updated
2026-09-17 / none
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