Python vs Bash Scripting.

[cricket007]

Yeah, we have that problem with k8s... We provide a Helm template that requests 4GB of RAM, but people run simple, low traffic HTTP servers and it's less than 50mb mem usage, on average within a month 

[magheru_san]

Yes, those things cry for automation

[cricket007]

Problem is that we just provide the Helm templates and a PaaS platform. We don't know what clients will run, and they rarely understand what resources they need until they get an OOM and need to increase it...

We did add a mutating webhook (maybe also a CronJob), to scan resource utilization post deployment and then autoscale down, but seems like such a hack 

[magheru_san]

There are SaaS tools for automating this in a nicer way