Resource (infrastructure) [glossary]deterministic
A defined amount of infrastructure available for consumption (CPU, memory, etc).
Capabilities provided to one or more [nodes](#gloss:node) (CPU, memory, GPUs, etc), and made available for consumption by [Pods](#gloss:pod) running on those nodes.
Kubernetes also uses the term _resource_ to describe an [API resource](#gloss:api-resource).
Computers provide fundamental hardware facilities: processing power, storage memory, network, etc. These resources have finite capacity, measured in a unit applicable to that resource (number of CPUs, bytes of memory, etc). Kubernetes abstracts common [resources](/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/) for allocation to workloads and utilizes operating system primitives (for example, Linux [cgroups](#gloss:cgroup)) to manage consumption by [workloads](#gloss:workload)).
You can also use [dynamic resource allocation](/docs/concepts/scheduling-eviction/dynamic-resource-allocation/) to manage complex resource allocations automatically.