How can I OOM kill a pod manually in Kubernetes

Question

I'm trying to manually OOM Kill pods for testing purposes, does anyone know how I can achieve this?

can you lower their memory limit until they oom? – ti7 May 23 '22 at 15:09 — ti7, May 23 '22 at 15:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '22 at 15:02

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You can run stress-ng in the pod. With this tool you can also stress CPU, I/O altogether if you need.

answered May 23 '22 at 15:02

gohm'c

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