Creeping Memory Usage of Container Writing to /tmp
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tl;dr the container filesystem lives in-memory, so temporary files and directories which don't get deleted will eat up RAM.
tl;dr the container filesystem lives in-memory, so temporary files and directories which don't get deleted will eat up RAM.
OpenShift provides some observability features out-of-the-box, but which features are available depends on what your cluster admin has working and what you have access to. On the NERC, we are able to see container metrics in OpenShift Developer's built-in dashboard. To enable custom visualizations, metrics analysis, and alerting, we need to connect this data to an instance of Grafana which we control.