soft-pod-memory-evicter

A Kubernetes Controller that evicts Pods when they're reaching their memory limit, giving them a chance to properly shutdown.

Supported Versions

The controller has been tested and built with the following components:

• Kubernetes >= 1.28
• Metric Server >= 0.7.1

Installation

helm repo add maxlaverse https://maxlaverse.github.io/helm-charts/
helm repo update
helm install soft-pod-memory-evicter maxlaverse/soft-pod-memory-evicter

Usage

NAME:
   soft-pod-memory-evicter - Gracefully evict Pods before they get OOM killed

USAGE:
   soft-pod-memory-evicter [global options] command [command options]

COMMANDS:
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --dry-run                                              Output additional debug lines (default: false)
   --pod-selector value                                   Evict only Pods matching this label selector
   --eviction-pause value                                 Pause duration between evictions (default: 5m0s)
   --memory-usage-check-interval value                    Interval at which the Pod metrics are checked (default: 3m0s)
   --memory-usage-threshold value                         Memory usage eviction threshold (0-100) (default: 95)
   --channel-queue-size value                             Size of the queue for pod eviction (default: 100)
   --ignore-namespace value [ --ignore-namespace value ]  Do not evict Pods from this namespace. Can be used multiple times
   --loglevel value, -v value                             Log Level (default: 0)
   --help, -h                                             show help

License

Distributed under the Apache License. See LICENSE for more information.