---
title: Configure Quotas for API Objects
content_type: task
weight: 130
---


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This page shows how to configure quotas for API objects, including
PersistentVolumeClaims and Services. A quota restricts the number of
objects, of a particular type, that can be created in a namespace.
You specify quotas in a
[ResourceQuota](/docs/reference/generated/kubernetes-api/{{< param "version" >}}/#resourcequota-v1-core)
object.




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## Create a namespace

Create a namespace so that the resources you create in this exercise are
isolated from the rest of your cluster.

```shell
kubectl create namespace quota-object-example
```

## Create a ResourceQuota

Here is the configuration file for a ResourceQuota object:

{{% code_sample file="admin/resource/quota-objects.yaml" %}}

Create the ResourceQuota:

```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/quota-objects.yaml --namespace=quota-object-example
```

View detailed information about the ResourceQuota:

```shell
kubectl get resourcequota object-quota-demo --namespace=quota-object-example --output=yaml
```

The output shows that in the quota-object-example namespace, there can be at most
one PersistentVolumeClaim, at most two Services of type LoadBalancer, and no Services
of type NodePort.

```yaml
status:
  hard:
    persistentvolumeclaims: "1"
    services.loadbalancers: "2"
    services.nodeports: "0"
  used:
    persistentvolumeclaims: "0"
    services.loadbalancers: "0"
    services.nodeports: "0"
```

## Create a PersistentVolumeClaim

Here is the configuration file for a PersistentVolumeClaim object:

{{% code_sample file="admin/resource/quota-objects-pvc.yaml" %}}

Create the PersistentVolumeClaim:

```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/quota-objects-pvc.yaml --namespace=quota-object-example
```

Verify that the PersistentVolumeClaim was created:

```shell
kubectl get persistentvolumeclaims --namespace=quota-object-example
```

The output shows that the PersistentVolumeClaim exists and has status Pending:

```
NAME             STATUS
pvc-quota-demo   Pending
```

## Attempt to create a second PersistentVolumeClaim

Here is the configuration file for a second PersistentVolumeClaim:

{{% code_sample file="admin/resource/quota-objects-pvc-2.yaml" %}}

Attempt to create the second PersistentVolumeClaim:

```shell
kubectl apply -f https://k8s.io/examples/admin/resource/quota-objects-pvc-2.yaml --namespace=quota-object-example