Tag: kubernetes

Backoff limit per index

Kubernetes v1.33 is coming with Backoff limit per index. Backoff limWHAT? Ideally, in kubernetes your workload should tolerate transient failures and continue running. By transient failures I mean network congestions, nodes with problems etc. To achieve failure tolerance in a Kubernetes Job, you can set the spec.backoffLimit field. This field specifies the total number of tolerated failures. Why should there be a limit? Well, you don’t want cascade failures, for example. Read more...