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aditya rawat
aditya rawat

Reputation: 129

Kubernetes consumes more memory, why?

I have been working with docker to run my scripts on chrome-node and firefox -node and debug with the selenium-hub image where it runs smoothly, but when I use the same with k8s the whole system slows down. Why is this happening, any idea. I am using minikubes for kubernetes and docker toolbox and docker compose for docker.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 647

Answers (1)

yamenk
yamenk

Reputation: 51768

There would definitely be an additional overhead when you start Kubernetes using minikube locally, compared to just starting a Docker container on the host.

In order to have a Kubernetes cluster, minikube creates a VM on the machine where the Kubernetes components will run in addition to the Docker container.

Anyway, minikube is not a production way for running Kubernetes. It is mostly meant for local development and testing. Therefore, you shouldn't evaluated kubernetes performance based on a minikube installation.

Upvotes: 3

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