School-district Pods without CPU requests share nodes with heavy batch jobs and suffer throttling. What do CPU requests primarily influence in this situation?
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Short Explanation
CPU requests are how you reserve a slice of the pie before the scheduler seats the Pod. Skip them and noisy neighbors can crowd you out—requests will not change kube-proxy mode or invent NetworkPolicies.
Full Explanation
CPU requests inform the scheduler about required capacity and contribute to QoS classification, improving fairness under contention compared with unset requests. They do not select kube-proxy mode, StorageClass defaults, or auto-create NetworkPolicies. Setting appropriate requests is a core admission and scheduling practice for multi-tenant nodes.