Category DevOps

Are you looking to dive into the world of Kubernetes and enhance your dev skills? Whether you’re gearing up for the Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) exam or simply eager to experiment with Kubernetes, having your own cluster is invaluable. However, setting up a Kubernetes cluster for practice can be a daunting task, especially when the available options either fall short of expectations or are too complex for learning purposes.

Failures and downtime are part of our day-to-day life. I had a problem with one of the services that started crashing a few times a week. We noticed that it crashes because the memory usage reaches its limits no matter how high the limit is. Debugging memory leaks is hard and time-consuming. As a temporary fix[^Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution] we decided to restart the application once a day.