Tricky Kubernetes memory management for Java applications

How to use the Kubernetes memory requests and limits in combination with JVM Heap and stay out of trouble.

Dan Siwiec
Published in
15 min readNov 16, 2022

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Running Java applications in a container environment requires an understanding of both — JVM memory mechanics and Kubernetes memory management. These two environments working together result…

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