/blog/tags/cloud-native/Recent content in Cloud-Native on Taubyte Blog/blog/opengraph.jpg/blog/opengraph.jpgHugo -- 0.146.0en-usSun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000/blog/posts/kubernetes-performance-fresser/Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0000/blog/posts/kubernetes-performance-fresser/<p>Kubernetes was built to orchestrate Google&rsquo;s global infrastructure. You are not Google. Terribly sorry.</p> <p>82% of container users run Kubernetes in production. Most of them shouldn&rsquo;t.</p> <h2 id="the-control-plane-tax">The Control Plane Tax</h2> <p>Before your application serves a single request, Kubernetes needs etcd chewing through 2-8 GB RAM per node. Then kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, kube-controller-manager, kubelet (reserving 25% of node memory by default), CoreDNS, kube-proxy, and a CNI plugin. All of this before your code runs.</p>