# 10 Most Common Kubernetes Reliability Risks

DevFeed: [10 Most Common Kubernetes Reliability Risks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/10-most-common-kubernetes-reliability-risks-11713.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.gremlin.com/blog/ten-most-common-kubernetes-reliability-risks>)

Author: Gavin Cahill

Published: 2024-02-14T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Gremlin Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/gremlin-blog.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/autoscaling.md>)

Tags: [autoscaling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autoscaling.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [outage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/outage.md>), [processes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/processes.md>), [resource](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resource.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines ten common Kubernetes reliability risks that can cause outages, including missing CPU and memory requests, missing memory limits, node failures, pod or container crashes, crash loops, and misconfigured load-balancing or application-gateway rules. It explains how resource requests influence scheduling and protect nodes, and how missing memory settings can lead to out-of-memory events and CrashLoopBackOff.

## Source excerpt

These Kubernetes reliability risks are present in almost every Kubernetes deployment. While many of these are simple configuration errors, all of them can cause failures that take down systems. Make sure that your teams are building processes for detecting these risks so you can resolve them before they cause an outage.