A pod kept getting evicted - even though CPU and memory looked fine.
The issue? Ephemeral storage.
It was filling up quietly, and Kubernetes had no idea how much the pod might use.
In the first episode of our new podcast Today I Learned, @Rachel Naane explains what ephemeral storage actually does in Kubernetes
- Why are your pods using it, even if you didn’t set anything
- How to use requests and limits to prevent surprise evictions
🎧 Listen to Episode 1 here