Because Cortex is designed to run multiple instances of each component (ingester, querier, etc.), you probably want to automate the placement and shepherding of these instances. Most users choose Kubernetes to do this, but this is not mandatory. Configuration Resource requests If using Kubernetes, each container should specify resource requests so that the scheduler can place them on a node with sufficient capacity. For example an ingester might request: resources: requests: cpu: 4 memory: 10...
