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What this PR does

Adds nodeGroups.<name>.podCpuLimit to the kubernetes chart. It renders into domain.resources.limits.cpu on the worker VM, which is the CPU ceiling of the virt-launcher compute container. The field has no default, so a cluster that does not set it renders exactly what it rendered before.

The knob exists because there is currently no way to give a worker VM a ceiling different from its vCPU count. nodeGroups.<name>.resources.cpu sizes the guest, not the pod. KubeVirt fills the pod side in: when the namespace carries a ResourceQuota that limits CPU, it sets limits.cpu to the guest vCPU count, and a tenant namespace with resourceQuotas set always does. So a worker sized at N vCPUs runs under a ceiling of N, and the QEMU emulator thread and the IO threads come out of the same N as the vCPU threads. Declaring the limit on the VM is the only clean way out: KubeVirt stops deriving one as soon as the VMI carries it (doesVMIRequireAutoResourceLimits returns early), and the value declared on the VM lands on the container. Removing cpu from the tenant's resourceQuotas instead would be worse, because the tenant LimitRange then applies its 250m default.

The field moves the ceiling and nothing else. It renders no CPU request, so the request stays what KubeVirt computes from the vCPU count and the cluster CPU allocation ratio, and the scheduler weight of a worker does not change with it. That is deliberate: a knob that moved both would make its own effect unreadable.

It cannot be combined with instanceType sizing, and the chart says so at render time rather than letting the failure land later. KubeVirt's instancetype applier reports domain.resources.limits.cpu as a conflict instead of resolving it, so a VM that carries both an instancetype and the limit is refused by the admission webhook, which leaves a node group with no Machine and a Kubernetes CR that explains nothing. Sizing a group by resources is exactly what drops the instancetype from the VM, so that is the combination the limit is usable in, and a group still sized by its instanceType now fails the render with a message naming the group. This sits beside the chart's existing guard for the neighbouring resources.cpu without resources.memory mistake, which is the same conflict class one field over.

Rendering is byte-identical for a node group that sets nothing, down to the whitespace, and that is load-bearing rather than tidy. The KubevirtMachineTemplate around this block is named by a hash of its content, so a stray key or a moved space would rename the template for every node group in every cluster and roll every live worker VM on upgrade. The existing hash pins in cluster_test.yaml cover it: they stay green, and they go red under a mutation that renders the limit unconditionally.

The e2e suite sets the limit to 3 for its two-vCPU workers. This is an experiment aimed at a measured mechanism, not a claimed fix for #3513. What a per-thread capture on a red run showed: the two vCPU threads of a stuck worker burn 1.6 to 1.8 cores between them under a ceiling of exactly 2.0 while the guest console records no progress at all, and the emulator, IO, vhost and vnc threads together stay under half a percent of the sampling interval. That is the shape of a vCPU spinning on a lock whose holder is the other vCPU, preempted out of the quota the two share, and it predicts that a ceiling with room above the vCPU count lets the preempted one back in. If the node-join failure rate does not move, the prediction was wrong and the mechanism needs a different lever; the chart field is useful either way, since a ceiling equal to the vCPU count is not a sensible default for a nested guest that pays emulation overhead out of it.

Tests are helm-unittest in the same package: the limit lands in domain.resources.limits.cpu, a fractional quantity survives, no CPU request appears beside it, the ephemeral-storage pair the block already carried is untouched on both sides, nothing renders when the field is absent, and a group that keeps its instancetype fails the render on the message that names the reason.

The kubernetes-nodes chart gets the same field, its guard and its own tests, because that chart is the other half of a byte-identity contract rather than a separate feature surface. Its tests/render-parity.sh renders a pool through both charts and compares the four pool objects byte for byte, on the grounds that the KubevirtMachineTemplate is content-hash named. A field only one side knows would not fail that gate, it would pass it and then quietly drop the ceiling when a pool is adopted into a split-out release. The gate gains a case that sets the limit and compares the two renders, and that case goes red if either side stops rendering it.

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Downstream repositories

Walked against the diff. One repository is reached: terraform-provider-cozystack models every app field by hand, and a new field in packages/apps/kubernetes/values.schema.json needs the schema, the model and the expand/flatten pair over there, the same way logSerialConsole did in cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#26 and kernelModules did in cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#20. The follow-up is filed as cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#32.

The website is not reached: its trigger is adding, renaming or removing a package, and the reference page for an existing package is regenerated from its README.md by the release bot. The remaining repositories restate nothing this diff touches. The change to hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh is a value inside the suite, not a move, a rename or a make target, so ccp is untouched.

Release note

feat(kubernetes): a node group can now set `podCpuLimit`, the CPU ceiling of its worker VMs, independently of the vCPU count that sizes the guest. Without it KubeVirt keeps deriving that ceiling from the vCPU count, which leaves the QEMU emulator and IO threads sharing the guest's own allowance. Unset by default, so existing clusters render and behave exactly as before.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added optional podCpuLimit configuration for setting CPU limits on worker VM containers.
    • Supports integer and fractional Kubernetes CPU quantities.
    • Preserves CPU requests and ephemeral-storage settings while applying the configured limit.
    • Worker changes trigger VM template rollouts.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added validation for incompatible combinations with instance-type sizing and insufficient resource configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Updated configuration references and schemas with usage, sizing, scheduling, and rollout guidance.

The chart had no way to give a worker VM a CPU ceiling different from
its vCPU count. `resources.cpu` sizes the guest, and the pod side is
filled in by KubeVirt: with a ResourceQuota limiting CPU in the
namespace, which every tenant carrying resourceQuotas has, it derives
limits.cpu from the guest vCPU count. The QEMU emulator thread and the
IO threads then come out of the same allowance as the vCPU threads,
which is tight for a nested guest that pays emulation overhead.

Declaring the limit on the VM is what stops KubeVirt deriving one, and
it is the only way out that does not make things worse: dropping cpu
from the tenant resourceQuotas would let the LimitRange apply its 250m
default instead, four times tighter than what it replaced.

The limit is usable only on a group sized by resources, because
KubeVirt's instancetype applier reports domain.resources.limits.cpu as
a conflict rather than resolving it, and a VM carrying both is refused
by the admission webhook with nothing on the CR to say why. Sizing by
resources is what drops the instancetype from the VM, so the chart
fails the render for a group that kept its instancetype, beside the
existing guard for the same conflict class one field over.

The field renders no CPU request, so the request stays derived from the
vCPU count and the cluster CPU allocation ratio, and the scheduler
weight of a worker does not move with its ceiling. It renders nothing
at all when unset, byte for byte: the enclosing KubevirtMachineTemplate
is named by a hash of its content, so anything else there would roll
every live worker VM on upgrade.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
Workers that fail to join have been measured burning their vCPU threads
flat out under a ceiling equal to their vCPU count while the guest
kernel recorded no progress at all, with the emulator, IO, vhost and
vnc threads flat at zero. That is the shape of a vCPU spinning on a
lock whose holder is the other vCPU, preempted out of the quota the two
share, and it predicts that a ceiling with room above the vCPU count
lets the preempted one back in.

What the next runs answer is whether the join failure rate moves. If it
does not, the lever is elsewhere and the value goes back.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
… chart

The split-out pool chart renders the same worker VM as the monolithic
one, and tests/render-parity.sh exists to prove it renders it
byte-identically, because the KubevirtMachineTemplate is content-hash
named and any divergence rolls every live worker VM. A field that only
one of the two charts knows breaks that quietly rather than loudly: a
pool adopted into a kubernetes-nodes release would render without the
CPU limit it was given, the hash would change, and the ceiling would
fall back to the vCPU count with nothing reporting it.

So the field, its render-time guard against combining it with an
instancetype, and its tests arrive here in the shape the parent chart
has them, and the parity gate gains a case that compares the two
renders with the limit set.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <3811295@gmail.com>
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Worker VM CPU limit

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration contracts
api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetes/..., api/apps/v1alpha1/kubernetesnodes/..., packages/apps/kubernetes*/values*, packages/system/kubernetes-*/...
Adds optional PodCpuLimit fields, schemas, values, and deep-copy support.
KubernetesNodes rendering and validation
packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/*, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/README.md
Renders only limits.cpu, preserves ephemeral-storage resources, and rejects incompatible instanceType sizing.
Kubernetes rendering and validation
packages/apps/kubernetes/templates/cluster.yaml, packages/apps/kubernetes/tests/*, packages/apps/kubernetes/README.md
Applies node-group CPU limits and validates instance-type combinations.
Integration and documentation
hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh, packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/tests/render-parity.sh, packages/apps/kubernetes*/values.yaml
Adds an end-to-end worker setting, parity coverage, and configuration documentation.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 78b9b

An explicitly configured CPU limit of 0 can be silently omitted, while an incompatible instanceType combination may also avoid the intended validation. This can produce inconsistent worker VM behavior and should be fixed before merging.

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  participant ChartValues
  participant HelmTemplate
  participant KubeVirt
  ChartValues->>HelmTemplate: provide podCpuLimit
  HelmTemplate->>HelmTemplate: validate instanceType combination
  HelmTemplate->>KubeVirt: render virt-launcher limits.cpu
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  • cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#32 — Requests Terraform provider modeling for the same podCpuLimit field.

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml`:
- Around line 179-183: The nodegroup template currently uses truthiness for
podCpuLimit, so an explicitly configured zero is treated as absent. Update the
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Comment on lines +179 to +183
{{- with .group.podCpuLimit }}
{{- $limited := $podResources | fromYaml }}
{{- $_ := set $limited.limits "cpu" (toString .) }}
{{- $podResources = toYaml $limited }}
{{- end }}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check field presence instead of value truthiness. The schema accepts integer quantities, but Helm treats unquoted podCpuLimit: 0 as empty. Line 179 then omits the limit, and Line 215 skips the instanceType conflict check. The equivalent string value, "0", follows a different path. Use hasKey to detect the configured field and render or reject zero consistently. Add a unit test for unquoted podCpuLimit: 0.

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-              {{- with .group.podCpuLimit }}
+              {{- if hasKey .group "podCpuLimit" }}
               {{- $limited := $podResources | fromYaml }}
-              {{- $_ := set $limited.limits "cpu" (toString .) }}
+              {{- $_ := set $limited.limits "cpu" (toString (index .group "podCpuLimit")) }}
               {{- $podResources = toYaml $limited }}
               {{- end }}
...
-{{- if and $group.podCpuLimit $group.instanceType (not (and $hasCpu $hasMem)) }}
+{{- if and (hasKey $group "podCpuLimit") $group.instanceType (not (and $hasCpu $hasMem)) }}

Also applies to: 215-216

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In `@packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/templates/nodegroup.yaml` around lines 179 -
183, The nodegroup template currently uses truthiness for podCpuLimit, so an
explicitly configured zero is treated as absent. Update the podCpuLimit handling
near the pod resources block and the instanceType conflict check to use hasKey
on the group values, ensuring zero is rendered and validated consistently with
other configured values. Add a unit test covering unquoted podCpuLimit: 0.

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Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 16, 2026
#3860)

## What this PR does

Removes the `podCpuLimit: 3` the e2e kubernetes suites set on their
tenant workers, because as shipped it makes the workers unschedulable: a
container with a CPU limit and no CPU request is given a request equal
to the limit, so each worker asked the scheduler for its whole three-CPU
ceiling, and on the first runs after it landed every kubernetes suite
worker sat Pending with `0/3 nodes are available: 3 Insufficient cpu`
before any guest booted. The failure diagnostics from those runs carry
it directly: the virt-launcher Pods are `phase=Pending` with no start
times, the console capture returns empty with the Pod state beside it,
and the thread capture declines with a marker naming the absent compute
container.

The limit itself was an experiment against the measured mechanism of
#3513 (both vCPU threads of a stuck worker burn flat
out at a ceiling equal to the vCPU count while the guest kernel makes no
progress). The experiment was never run: the request side spoiled it
before the first guest started. It returns once the chart can pair the
limit with an explicit request, which is a follow-up to #3859.

### Screenshots

Not applicable, no UI change.

### Downstream repositories

The diff is one values block inside
`hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh`. Nothing in the trigger map
is touched.

- [x] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
fix(e2e): tenant workers in the kubernetes e2e suites no longer set a CPU limit, since without a paired request it defaulted the scheduler request to the full ceiling and left the workers unschedulable
```
Aleksei Sviridkin (lexfrei) added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 16, 2026
…VMs (#3862)

## What this PR does

Adds `nodeGroups.<name>.podCpuRequest` to the kubernetes chart,
rendering into `domain.resources.requests.cpu` on the worker VM, and the
same field to `kubernetes-nodes`. It has no default, so a cluster that
does not set it renders exactly what it rendered before.

It exists because `podCpuLimit` does not do what #3859 said it does.
That PR shipped the limit on the claim that it moves the ceiling alone
and leaves the CPU request at the value KubeVirt derives from the guest
vCPU count and the cluster allocation ratio. KubeVirt does the opposite:
`setDefaultResourceRequests` in `pkg/defaults` copies a declared CPU
limit into the CPU request whenever the VM declares no request of its
own, and it runs in the VMI mutating webhook, before the template
service gets there. The request the template service computes from the
vCPU count is then overwritten by the copy. So a node group that set
only the limit asked the scheduler for its whole ceiling, which is what
took every e2e worker out in #3860: Pending on `Insufficient cpu` before
a guest booted. The request is the half that has to hold still, and the
chart had no way to declare it. Worth correcting one detail of #3860
while I am here: it attributes the defaulting to Kubernetes copying
limits into requests. Kubernetes does that too, but here the copy
happens a layer earlier, on the VMI, which is why KubeVirt's own
vCPU-derived request never appeared on the container.

The first commit fixes that documentation, in both charts and in the
generated schema, README and CRD descriptions that carry it. It also
promised a floor that does not exist, a limit below the derived request
was said to leave the container requesting more than its limit, when the
copy makes the two equal whatever the limit is.

The field itself is the scheduler reservation, not guest sizing, and it
is usable on its own. An explicit request does not stop KubeVirt
deriving the ceiling: `doesVMIRequireAutoResourceLimits` returns early
only on a declared *limit*, so a lone request changes the weighting a
worker gets on a contended host and leaves the ceiling where KubeVirt
puts it. That asymmetry is why the docs tell you to keep a lone request
at or below the guest vCPU count.

Two render-time guards, both in the style of the one #3859 added. The
instancetype guard is the same conflict one field over, and it is the
same upstream check: `validateCPU` in `pkg/instancetype/apply` reports
`domain.resources.requests.cpu` and `domain.resources.limits.cpu` in
consecutive branches, so a VM carrying an instancetype and either key is
refused by admission, leaving a node group with no Machine and a
Kubernetes CR that explains nothing. The second guard refuses a request
above its own limit, because that rejection otherwise lands on API
server validation of the worker's Pod, two objects away from the CR that
named the values. The two quantities are compared as numbers through the
chart library's `toFloat`, not as the strings that spell them: `500m`
under a ceiling of `1` is the ordinary case for this field, and a
lexical comparison refuses it.

One thing I deliberately did not guard: a lone request above the ceiling
KubeVirt derives is also invalid, but the chart cannot see whether it
will be. The derivation only happens in a namespace carrying a
ResourceQuota that limits CPU, and the derived value counts IO threads
on top of the vCPU count. Failing the render on a value that is
perfectly fine in a quota-free namespace would take away a working
configuration, so that case is documented rather than enforced.

Byte identity for a group that sets neither field is measured rather
than asserted: rendering both charts at this branch and at `main` with
the knobs unset gives byte-identical `KubevirtMachineTemplate` and
`MachineDeployment`, content-hash suffix included. That is load-bearing
rather than tidy, a stray key or a moved space renames the template for
every node group in every cluster and rolls every live worker VM on
upgrade. The existing hash pins in `cluster_test.yaml` cover it too, and
stay green.

`kubernetes-nodes` gets the field, both guards and its own suite,
because that chart is the other half of a byte-identity contract rather
than a separate feature surface. Its `tests/render-parity.sh` renders a
pool through both charts and compares the four pool objects byte for
byte; a field only one side knows would pass that gate and then quietly
drop the request when a pool is adopted into a split-out release. The
gate gains a case that sets the pair.

Two defects in the above turned up while I was checking it, and each is
its own commit rather than a quiet amendment. The first is in the chart
library: `cozy-lib.resources.toFloat` knew every suffix of the quantity
grammar except `u` and `n`, and a suffix it does not recognise is not an
error, the unit letter stays on the string, `float64` yields zero
silently, and the comparison read zero against zero. A request of `100u`
above a limit of `50u` rendered. The library gains the two missing
decades and a suite that pins the whole suffix grammar, one value per
form, since that failure has no error to notice it by.

The second is the value domain, and the third commit settles all of it
at once rather than patching whichever edge turned up. Both fields were
rendered under `with`, which skips a zero as readily as an absent field,
and their guards were keyed the same way; the generated schema behind
them admits a leading minus just as readily. So: presence, not truth, is
the predicate everywhere either field is read. A negative value is
refused, it never reaches a running Pod. A zero limit is allowed and
means no ceiling at all rather than the tightest one, because the
kubelet turns a zero CPU limit into no CFS quota (`MilliCPUToQuota`
returns zero for zero) while the declared key still stops KubeVirt
deriving one. A zero request on its own is allowed and reserves nothing.
A zero request beside a non-zero limit is refused, and that one is worth
stating: KubeVirt's defaulter tests the request with `IsZero`, which an
explicit zero satisfies exactly as an absent key does, so it overwrites
the zero with the limit and the worker asks the scheduler for its whole
ceiling, the outcome `podCpuRequest` exists to prevent, reached silently
and reported nowhere. Refusing beats documenting when nothing downstream
will ever mention it. A zero limit is the one case that needed a second
look, because two reviewers independently read it as "no ceiling, so a
positive request beside it is fine". It is not: API server validation
refuses a request above a limit that *exists*, and zero is a limit that
exists, while KubeVirt keeps deriving a request from the vCPU count
whenever the VM declares none, the defaulter that would have copied the
limit across does not fire, precisely because the limit is zero. So a
lone `podCpuLimit: 0` renders a Pod that is rejected on creation, and it
is refused here instead. Paired with `podCpuRequest: 0` it is coherent
and stays allowed: no ceiling, no reservation.

This settles `podCpuLimit` along with its new pair, deliberately: the
two are documented as a pair and cannot sanely disagree about what zero
means. Worth stating plainly that `podCpuLimit: 0` changes meaning as a
result, at `main` it renders nothing, because `with` drops a zero as
readily as an absent field, and here it either renders or fails the
render depending on what sits beside it. `podCpuLimit` landed on `main`
earlier the same day and has never been in a release, so no shipped
configuration is affected, but anyone who set it on `main` between then
and now should read this paragraph rather than discover it.

Tests are helm-unittest in both packages, mirrored case for case, with
one per class of the domain above: the request lands, a fractional
quantity survives, the pair renders both keys with the ephemeral-storage
pair untouched on both sides, a request alone renders no limit beside
it, nothing renders when the field is absent, every guard fails on the
message that names its reason, an equal request is accepted, a milli
request under an integer limit is accepted, a lone zero request renders,
a zero request beside a limit is refused, a zero pair is accepted, and a
negative value of either field is refused. I ran a mutation ladder over
the result: dropping the request render in either chart, flipping the
comparison operator, comparing the quantities as strings, dropping
either instancetype guard, dropping the field from the child's group
dict, reverting the two suffixes, reverting either predicate to
truthiness, dropping either negative guard, and letting the zero-request
guard stop excluding a zero limit. Every one is caught, each by the case
that exists for it, the string comparison by `500m` under a ceiling of
`1`, the suffixes by the micro-range pair, the predicate and the domain
rules by their own zero and negative cases.

The e2e suite gets the headroom experiment back, `podCpuLimit: 3` with
`podCpuRequest: 200m`. The request is what KubeVirt derived for these
workers before either field existed, so scheduling is unchanged against
every historical run and the ceiling is the only variable that moves. It
is still an experiment against a measured mechanism, not a claimed fix
for #3513: a per-thread capture on a red run showed both vCPU threads of
a stuck worker burning flat out at a ceiling equal to their vCPU count
while the guest kernel made no progress, which is what a vCPU spinning
on a lock looks like when the vCPU holding it is the one preempted out
of the quota they share. If the join failure rate does not move, the
lever is elsewhere.

### Screenshots

Not a UI change.

### Downstream repositories

Walked against the diff. One repository is reached, and it is the one
#3859 already reached: `terraform-provider-cozystack` models every app
field by hand, so `podCpuRequest` in
`packages/apps/kubernetes/values.schema.json` and
`packages/apps/kubernetes-nodes/values.schema.json` needs the schema,
the model and the expand/flatten pair over there. That work is one edit,
not two, both fields land in the same model and the same docs, so the
pair is added to the open one,
cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#32, with a comment that also
corrects the description of what `podCpuLimit` does, which that issue
took from the claim this PR retracts.

The website is not reached: its trigger is adding, renaming or removing
a package, and the reference page for an existing package is regenerated
from its `README.md` by the release bot. The change to
`hack/e2e-chainsaw/_lib/run-kubernetes.sh` is a value inside the suite,
not a move, a rename or a make target, so `ccp` is untouched. The
remaining repositories restate nothing this diff touches.

- [ ] No downstream repository is affected by this change
- [ ] [cozystack/website](https://github.com/cozystack/website) -
follow-up:
- [x]
[cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack)
- follow-up:
cozystack/terraform-provider-cozystack#32
- [ ]
[cozystack/ansible-cozystack](https://github.com/cozystack/ansible-cozystack)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/ccp](https://github.com/cozystack/ccp) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/talm](https://github.com/cozystack/talm) - follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozyhr](https://github.com/cozystack/cozyhr) -
follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/cozy-proxy](https://github.com/cozystack/cozy-proxy) -
follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server](https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack-telemetry-server)
- follow-up:
- [ ]
[cozystack/external-apps-example](https://github.com/cozystack/external-apps-example)
- follow-up:
- [ ] [cozystack/examples](https://github.com/cozystack/examples) -
follow-up:

### Release note

```release-note
feat(kubernetes): a node group can now set `podCpuRequest`, the CPU request of its worker VMs, next to `podCpuLimit`. Without it KubeVirt copies a declared CPU limit into the request, so raising a worker's CPU ceiling also raised what it asked the scheduler for and could leave the group unschedulable. Unset by default, so existing clusters render and behave exactly as before.
```


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added `podCpuRequest` configuration for independently controlling
Kubernetes scheduler CPU reservations.
* CPU requests and limits now support explicit zero and fractional
quantities.
* Added validation for negative values, incompatible instance-type
settings, invalid zero combinations, and requests exceeding limits.
* Improved resource quantity conversion, including micro- and nano-unit
support.

* **Documentation**
* Updated configuration references and schemas with CPU request, limit,
validation, and rollout behavior.

* **Tests**
* Added comprehensive coverage for CPU resource rendering, validation,
quantity conversion, and parity.

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