PostgreSQL containers are slow, bloated or crash
3 posts from 2 people3d activeSteady, +1 this week
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Default-deny NetworkPolicy silently breaks DNS, and on OpenShift the port you need to allow is 5353, not 53
Ran into this pattern on a lot of clusters, so here's the write-up I wish I'd had. (I work at a Kubernetes consultancy, Agency 42. Nothing to sell here: the manifests are public on GitHub.). Symptom. You apply a "default deny" policy as a security baseline and within seconds...
Extract from PDF - memory overflow - server crash
## Describe the problem/error/question Node Extract from File (version 1.2) - operation Extract from PDF - fails with error and then n8n container restart itself ## What is the error message (if any)? Execution stopped at this node n8n may have run out of memory while running...
Default-deny NetworkPolicy silently breaks DNS, and on OpenShift the port you need to allow is 5353, not 53
Ran into this pattern on a lot of clusters, so here's the write-up I wish I'd had. (I work at a Kubernetes consultancy, Agency 42. Nothing to sell here: the manifests are public on GitHub.). Symptom. You apply a "default deny" policy as a security baseline and within seconds...
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3 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 2 a week over 8 days. Mostly on r/kubernetes, n8n-io/n8n. Tools named alongside: GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker, n8n.
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Posts that state a pain and match the "containers" rule about PostgreSQL. First post Oct 30, 2026, latest Nov 6, 2026. Corroborated: 3 or more posts from 2 or more people or places. Method
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