# apply to the workload cluster; scale replicas to trigger scale-up # 2 pods per 4 vCPU / 2 GiB worker: CPU-bound (3 × 1500m > 4000m); 512Mi keeps memory from binding # first (a 2 GiB VM has ~1.78 GiB allocatable; measured 3.73 GiB on a 4 GiB VM) apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: inflate spec: replicas: 0 selector: matchLabels: { app: inflate } template: metadata: labels: { app: inflate } spec: containers: - name: pause image: registry.k8s.io/pause:3.10 resources: requests: { cpu: "1500m", memory: "512Mi" }