From Random Scheduling to Smart Placement: My Journey with Kubernetes Pods & Nodes

When I first started deploying workloads on Kubernetes, I had one very innocent assumption: “Kubernetes is smart. It will put my pods on the right nodes automatically.” Reality hit hard when my critical pods landed on “weak” nodes, GPU-heavy workloads were assigned to nodes without GPUs, and memory-hungry apps accidentally killed their host nodes. That […]