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[EKS] [request]: efs-csi addon resource-requests seem large and difficult to tune

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**Tell us about your request**
The EFS-CSI addon supports specifying resource-requests and limits. However these apply to all three containers in the controller-pod - "efs-plugin", "csi-provisioner", and "liveness-probe". The default request is 200m CPU, which gets multiple by three which means the default behavior is for each controller-pod to request 60% of a core.

This service runs replicated by default, so the out-of-the-box resource-request for the controller is 1.2 cores. This seems pretty large?

I expect that the different containers within the pod have different resource-use characteristics and don't all need to be requesting 1/5th of a core each.

The up-stream helm-chart allows making specific resource-requests per container.

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
EKS

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**

**Are you currently working around this issue?**
N/A

**Additional context**
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Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reading the upstream Helm chart mentioned in the issue and compare its per-container resource-request settings with the EFS-CSI addon behavior. Done means the addon lets users tune requests separately for the efs-plugin, csi-provisioner, and liveness-probe containers rather than applying one value to all three.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, kubernetes
Domain
cloud, infrastructure
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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