Quotas and limits in Managed Service for Kubernetes

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Updated at July 14, 2025

Managed Service for Kubernetes has the following limits:

Quotas are organizational constraints that can be changed by support on request.
Limits are technical constraints of the Yandex Cloud architecture. You cannot change the limits.

Managed Service for Kubernetes uses the specified maximum node group size as the actual size, regardless of the current size.

If you need more resources, you can increase your quotas in one of the following ways:

To have your request processed, you must have the quota-manager.requestOperator role or higher, e.g., editor or admin.

You can manage your quotas with Cloud Quota Manager.

Type of limit	Value
Total number of vCPUs across all masters per cloud `managed-kubernetes.masterCores.count`	60
Total amount of RAM across all masters per cloud `managed-kubernetes.masterMemory.size`	240 GB
Total number of vCPUs across all nodes per cloud `managed-kubernetes.cores.count`	240
Total amount of RAM across all nodes per cloud `managed-kubernetes.memory.size`	960 GB
Total disk storage capacity across all nodes per cloud `managed-kubernetes.disk.size`	30,000 GB
Maximum number of Kubernetes clusters per cloud `managed-kubernetes.clusters.count`	10
Maximum number of node groups per cloud `managed-kubernetes.nodeGroups.count`	160
Maximum number of nodes per cloud `managed-kubernetes.nodes.count`	160
Maximum number of node groups per Kubernetes cluster	16
Maximum number of nodes per Kubernetes cluster	32

Type of limit	Value
Maximum number of volumes connected to a single node	56