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Discussion on: Mistake that cost thousands (Kubernetes, GKE)

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Mohamed Najiullah

Something else that I learned while trying to utilise resources effectively was to try and have minimal number of daemon pods.

Having more number of smaller nodes also results in more resources being allocated to daemon pods as they need to run in every node. We're now trying to reduce the number of nodes as much as other constraints allow us to and have seen lower resources being spent on daemon pods.