This is The Way- A Crash Course on the Intricacies of Managing CPUs in K8s

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Covers CPU management in Kubernetes (kubelet) across setups from single-socket to heterogeneous multi-socket clusters, including proximity-aware allocation for AI/ML workloads near GPUs, core-level pinning inside containers, and reserving cores outside Kubernetes. Explains static and dynamic CPU pinning techniques, practical use cases (AI/ML, telco/5G, networking) and current Kubernetes limitations, and outlines how to surface new use cases to the Kubernetes community.

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