Moving Beyond OOM Kills: Introducing Memory QoS in Kubernetes 1.37
Table of Contents For most of Kubernetes’ history, memory management has been a blunt instrument. Cross your limit, and the kernel kills your container. There has been no equivalent to CPU throttling, no graceful backpressure, just a hard stop. With Kubernetes 1.37, that changes: Memory QoS, built on cgroups v2, graduates to Beta and is enabled by default.