No Way to Locally Reproduce Kubernetes Memory Limits Before Shipping to Production
Developers who test locally with docker compose never see OOM kills, because compose doesn't enforce memory limits the way a Kubernetes Deployment does, so containers that run fine locally get OOMKilled the moment resource limits are applied in the cluster. There is no straightforward way to reproduce Kubernetes-style memory enforcement locally to size limits deliberately. This forces developers into a trial-and-error loop of bumping memory limits in production until kills stop.
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