For another perspective, the Kubernetes community has had a long discussion about using swap space over the course of the last 2 1/2 years, as you can see in th

For another perspective, the Kubernetes community has had a long discussion about using swap space over the course of the last 2 1/2 years, as you can see in this feature thread: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53533 https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/53533 TL;dr: As of version 1.8 any system running k8s has to disable swap space or formally mark in the kubelet that you are turning the check for it off. There are good arguments on both sides of this issue, and the discussion is still continuing.