How do you choose the best instance type for your Kubernetes cluster?

When using an 8 GB/2vCPU instance, are all the memory and CPU available to pods?

The Kubernetes instance calculator answers those questions and a lot more! https://learnk8s.io/kubernetes-instance-calculator

This is what you can do:

💰 Estimate costs for your workloads based on requests and instance sizes.
🔝 Explore instance overcommitment and efficiency.
📈 Identify over and underspending by model error rates on your actual memory and CPU usage.
⚖️ Compare instances between different cloud providers.

You can find the Kubernetes instance calculator here: https://learnk8s.io/kubernetes-instance-calculator