diff --git a/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/commands.py b/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/commands.py
index 6f70c4c7e..0c7e3abbd 100644
--- a/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/commands.py
+++ b/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/commands.py
@@ -280,9 +280,10 @@ def _bootstrap_config(config: Dict[str, Any],
                 f"Failed to autodetect node resources: {str(exc)}. "
                 "You can see full stack trace with higher verbosity.")
 
-    # NOTE: if `resources` field is missing, validate_config for non-AWS will
-    # fail (the schema error will ask the user to manually fill the resources)
-    # as we currently support autofilling resources for AWS instances only.
+    # NOTE: if `resources` field is missing, validate_config for providers
+    # other than AWS and Kubernetes will fail (the schema error will ask the
+    # user to manually fill the resources) as we currently support autofilling
+    # resources for AWS and Kubernetes only.
     validate_config(config)
     resolved_config = provider_cls.bootstrap_config(config)
 
diff --git a/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/kubernetes/config.py b/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/kubernetes/config.py
index 20173119b..b285e7701 100644
--- a/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/kubernetes/config.py
+++ b/python/ray/autoscaler/_private/kubernetes/config.py
@@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ def bootstrap_kubernetes(config):
 
 
 def fillout_resources_kubernetes(config):
+    """Fills CPU and GPU resources by reading pod spec of each available node
+    type.
+
+    For each node type and each of CPU/GPU, looks at container's resources
+    and limits, takes min of the two. The result is rounded up, as Ray does
+    not currently support fractional CPU.
+    """
     if "available_node_types" not in config:
         return config["available_node_types"]
     node_types = copy.deepcopy(config["available_node_types"])
@@ -96,20 +103,47 @@ def get_resource(container_resources, resource_name):
     limit = _get_resource(
         container_resources, resource_name, field_name="limits")
     resource = min(request, limit)
+    # float("inf") value means the resource wasn't detected in either
+    # requests or limits
     return 0 if resource == float("inf") else int(resource)
 
 
 def _get_resource(container_resources, resource_name, field_name):
-    if (field_name in container_resources
-            and resource_name in container_resources[field_name]):
-        return _parse_resource(container_resources[field_name][resource_name])
-    else:
+    """Returns the resource quantity.
+
+    The amount of resource is rounded up to nearest integer.
+    Returns float("inf") if the resource is not present.
+
+    Args:
+        container_resources (dict): Container's resource field.
+        resource_name (str): One of 'cpu' or 'gpu'.
+        field_name (str): One of 'requests' or 'limits'.
+
+    Returns:
+        Union[int, float]: Detected resource quantity.
+    """
+    if field_name not in container_resources:
+        # No limit/resource field.
         return float("inf")
+    resources = container_resources[field_name]
+    # Look for keys containing the resource_name. For example,
+    # the key 'nvidia.com/gpu' contains the key 'gpu'.
+    matching_keys = [key for key in resources if resource_name in key.lower()]
+    if len(matching_keys) == 0:
+        return float("inf")
+    if len(matching_keys) > 1:
+        # Should have only one match -- mostly relevant for gpu.
+        raise ValueError(f"Multiple {resource_name} types not supported.")
+    # E.g. 'nvidia.com/gpu' or 'cpu'.
+    resource_key = matching_keys.pop()
+    resource_quantity = resources[resource_key]
+    return _parse_resource(resource_quantity)
 
 
 def _parse_resource(resource):
     resource_str = str(resource)
     if resource_str[-1] == "m":
+        # For example, '500m' rounds up to 1.
         return math.ceil(int(resource_str[:-1]) / 1000)
     else:
         return int(resource_str)