how to explicitly remove cpu limits for a container?

Question

I want to remove cpu limits for a specific container where the namespace has default cpu limits (via limitrange). Per docs the default value will be assigned. When I explicitly set limits.cpu to 0, I got an error that tells me requests value 20m should be less than or equal to limits value.

So is it possible to force no limits in that case?

Answer 1

Seems like you can remove limits with null value. At least it worked from helmfile:

   resources:
    requests:
      memory: "100Mi"
      cpu: "100m"
    limits:
      memory: "100Mi"
      cpu: null

Answer 2

After more research, it is not possible to achieve. It does make sense to me it is not possible as stated by Frank Gu: because that would pretty much defeat the purpose of resource quotas in the first place