diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity.go
index 69f1bc336d3..50af8334f01 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity.go
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 
+	cbor "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor/direct"
+
 	inf "gopkg.in/inf.v0"
 )
 
@@ -683,6 +685,12 @@ func (q Quantity) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
 	return result, nil
 }
 
+func (q Quantity) MarshalCBOR() ([]byte, error) {
+	// The call to String() should never return the string "<nil>" because the receiver's
+	// address will never be nil.
+	return cbor.Marshal(q.String())
+}
+
 // ToUnstructured implements the value.UnstructuredConverter interface.
 func (q Quantity) ToUnstructured() interface{} {
 	return q.String()
@@ -711,6 +719,27 @@ func (q *Quantity) UnmarshalJSON(value []byte) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (q *Quantity) UnmarshalCBOR(value []byte) error {
+	var s *string
+	if err := cbor.Unmarshal(value, &s); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	if s == nil {
+		q.d.Dec = nil
+		q.i = int64Amount{}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	parsed, err := ParseQuantity(strings.TrimSpace(*s))
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	*q = parsed
+	return nil
+}
+
 // NewDecimalQuantity returns a new Quantity representing the given
 // value in the given format.
 func NewDecimalQuantity(b inf.Dec, format Format) *Quantity {
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity_test.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity_test.go
index 646caee7b78..c78ff8d6bd0 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity_test.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource/quantity_test.go
@@ -27,10 +27,12 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"unicode"
 
+	"github.com/google/go-cmp/cmp"
 	fuzz "github.com/google/gofuzz"
 	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
-
 	inf "gopkg.in/inf.v0"
+
+	cbor "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/serializer/cbor/direct"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -1615,3 +1617,88 @@ func ExampleQuantityValue() {
 	// Output:
 	// --mem quantity   sets amount of memory (default 1Mi)
 }
+
+func TestQuantityUnmarshalCBOR(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name       string
+		in         []byte
+		want       Quantity
+		errMessage string
+	}{
+		{
+			name: "null",
+			in:   []byte{0xf6}, // null
+			want: Quantity{},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "text string input",
+			in:   []byte("\x621M"), // "1M"
+			want: Quantity{i: int64Amount{value: 1, scale: 6}},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "byte string input",
+			in:   []byte("\x421M"), // '1M'
+			want: Quantity{i: int64Amount{value: 1, scale: 6}},
+		},
+		{
+			name: "whitespace",
+			in:   []byte("\x4a \t\n\r1M \t\n\r"), // h'20090a0d314d20090a0d'
+			want: Quantity{i: int64Amount{value: 1, scale: 6}},
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "empty byte string",
+			in:         []byte{0x40},
+			errMessage: ErrFormatWrong.Error(),
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "empty text string",
+			in:         []byte{0x60},
+			errMessage: ErrFormatWrong.Error(),
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "unsupported input type",
+			in:         []byte{0x07}, // 7
+			errMessage: "cbor: cannot unmarshal positive integer into Go value of type string",
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			var got Quantity
+			if err := got.UnmarshalCBOR(tc.in); err != nil {
+				if tc.errMessage == "" {
+					t.Fatalf("want nil error, got: %v", err)
+				} else if gotMessage := err.Error(); tc.errMessage != gotMessage {
+					t.Fatalf("want error: %q, got: %q", tc.errMessage, gotMessage)
+				}
+			} else if tc.errMessage != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("got nil error, want: %s", tc.errMessage)
+			}
+
+			if diff := cmp.Diff(tc.want, got); diff != "" {
+				t.Errorf("unexpected diff:\n%s", diff)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQuantityRoundtripCBOR(t *testing.T) {
+	for i := 0; i < 500; i++ {
+		var initial, final Quantity
+		fuzzer.Fuzz(&initial)
+		b, err := cbor.Marshal(initial)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("error encoding %v: %v", initial, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		err = cbor.Unmarshal(b, &final)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("%v: error decoding %v: %v", initial, string(b), err)
+		}
+		if final.Cmp(initial) != 0 {
+			diag, err := cbor.Diagnose(b)
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Logf("failed to produce diagnostic encoding of 0x%x: %v", b, err)
+			}
+			t.Errorf("Expected equal: %v, %v (cbor was '%s')", initial, final, diag)
+		}
+	}
+}