After having been almost exclusively on the platform level of #Kubernetes for half a decade, it's definitely a change of scenery to be helping #Java developers moving legacy stuff from VMs to containers.
Today I went down the rabbit hole to investigate Java 8 container resource awareness. As expected, the support was spotty and outdated, requiring the old #cgroups v1. With a bit of hacking, if should be possible to add the proper parameters at runtime though, preventing the memory hungry Java container from the dreaded #OutOfMemory or OOM kill.
I miss having more control over the #platform, but that's not in the cards this time around.



