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+# Admission control plugin: ResourceQuota
+
+## Background
+
+This document proposes a system for enforcing hard resource usage limits per namespace as part of admission control.
+
+## Model Changes
+
+A new resource, **ResourceQuota**, is introduced to enumerate hard resource limits in a Kubernetes namespace.
+
+A new resource, **ResourceQuotaUsage**, is introduced to support atomic updates of a **ResourceQuota** status.
+
+```
+// The following identify resource constants for Kubernetes object types
+const (
+  // Pods, number
+  ResourcePods ResourceName = "pods"
+  // Services, number
+  ResourceServices ResourceName = "services"
+  // ReplicationControllers, number
+  ResourceReplicationControllers ResourceName = "replicationcontrollers"
+  // ResourceQuotas, number
+  ResourceQuotas ResourceName = "resourcequotas"
+)
+
+// ResourceQuotaSpec defines the desired hard limits to enforce for Quota
+type ResourceQuotaSpec struct {
+  // Hard is the set of desired hard limits for each named resource
+  Hard ResourceList `json:"hard,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ResourceQuotaStatus defines the enforced hard limits and observed use
+type ResourceQuotaStatus struct {
+  // Hard is the set of enforced hard limits for each named resource
+  Hard ResourceList `json:"hard,omitempty"`
+  // Used is the current observed total usage of the resource in the namespace
+  Used ResourceList `json:"used,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ResourceQuota sets aggregate quota restrictions enforced per namespace
+type ResourceQuota struct {
+  TypeMeta   `json:",inline"`
+  ObjectMeta `json:"metadata,omitempty"`
+
+  // Spec defines the desired quota
+  Spec ResourceQuotaSpec `json:"spec,omitempty"`
+
+  // Status defines the actual enforced quota and its current usage
+  Status ResourceQuotaStatus `json:"status,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ResourceQuotaUsage captures system observed quota status per namespace
+// It is used to enforce atomic updates of a backing ResourceQuota.Status field in storage
+type ResourceQuotaUsage struct {
+  TypeMeta   `json:",inline"`
+  ObjectMeta `json:"metadata,omitempty"`
+
+  // Status defines the actual enforced quota and its current usage
+  Status ResourceQuotaStatus `json:"status,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// ResourceQuotaList is a list of ResourceQuota items
+type ResourceQuotaList struct {
+  TypeMeta `json:",inline"`
+  ListMeta `json:"metadata,omitempty"`
+
+  // Items is a list of ResourceQuota objects
+  Items []ResourceQuota `json:"items"`
+}
+
+```
+
+## AdmissionControl plugin: ResourceQuota
+
+The **ResourceQuota** plug-in introspects all incoming admission requests. 
+
+It makes decisions by evaluating the incoming object against all defined **ResourceQuota.Status.Hard** resource limits in the request
+namespace.  If acceptance of the resource would cause the total usage of a named resource to exceed its hard limit, the request is denied.
+
+The following resource limits are imposed as part of core Kubernetes:
+
+| ResourceName | Description |
+| ------------ | ----------- |
+| cpu | Total cpu usage |
+| memory | Total memory usage |
+| pods | Total number of pods  |
+| services | Total number of services |
+| replicationcontrollers | Total number of replication controllers |
+| resourcequotas | Total number of resource quotas |
+
+Any resource that is not part of core Kubernetes must follow the resource naming convention prescribed by Kubernetes.
+
+This means the resource must have a fully-qualified name (i.e. mycompany.org/shinynewresource)
+
+If the incoming request does not cause the total usage to exceed any of the enumerated hard resource limits, the plug-in will post a
+**ResourceQuotaUsage** document to the server to atomically update the observed usage based on the previously read 
+**ResourceQuota.ResourceVersion**.  This keeps incremental usage atomically consistent, but does introduce a bottleneck (intentionally)
+into the system.
+
+## kube-apiserver
+
+The server is updated to be aware of **ResourceQuota** objects.
+
+The quota is only enforced if the kube-apiserver is started as follows:
+
+```
+$ kube-apiserver -admission_control=ResourceQuota
+```
+
+## kube-controller-manager
+
+A new controller is defined that runs a synch loop to run usage stats across the namespace.
+
+If the observed usage is different than the recorded usage, the controller sends a **ResourceQuotaUsage** resource
+to the server to atomically update.
+
+The synchronization loop frequency will control how quickly DELETE actions are recorded in the system and usage is ticked down.
+
+To optimize the synchronization loop, this controller will WATCH on Pod resources to track DELETE events, and in response, recalculate
+usage.  This is because a Pod deletion will have the most impact on observed cpu and memory usage in the system, and we anticipate
+this being the resource most closely running at the prescribed quota limits.
+
+## kubectl
+
+kubectl is modified to support the **ResourceQuota** resource.
+
+```kubectl describe``` provides a human-readable output of quota.
+
+For example,
+
+```
+$ kubectl namespace myspace
+$ kubectl create -f examples/resourcequota/resource-quota.json
+$ kubectl get quota
+NAME
+myquota
+$ kubectl describe quota myquota
+Name: myquota
+Resource  Used  Hard
+--------  ----  ----
+cpu 100m  20
+memory  0 1.5Gb
+pods  1 10
+replicationControllers  1 10
+services  2 3
+```
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