Memory management : Java containers on K8s

This page documents a few aspects of memory management on Java containers on K8s clusters. For java containers, memory management on K8s have various factors: Xmx and Xms limits managed by java Request/limit values for the container HPA policies used for scaling the number of pods Misconfigurations / misunderstanding of any of these parameters leads to OOMs of java containers on K8s clusters.…