Kubernetes OOM and CPU Throttling

Introduction

When working with Kubernetes, Out of Memory (OOM) errors and CPU throttling are the main headaches of resource handling in cloud applications. Why is that?

CPU and Memory requirements in cloud applications are ever more important, since they are tied directly to your cloud costs.

With limits and requests, you can configure how your pods should allocate memory and CPU resources in order to prevent resource starvation and adjust cloud costs.

In case a Node doesn’t have enough …

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