By Scott Miller
I have successfully launched my app using DO Kubernetes, but have noticed that from typing kubectl apply
for the first time to the cluster being able to serve requests takes around 5 minutes. Is this typical? It seems long but I am not sure what to expect.
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Hi there!
Yes it can take anywhere from 3-10min for the cluster to come up. This is heavily dependent on the cluster size and how many nodes need to bootstrap as well as other factors such as the standard performance variability.
Let me know if you have any additional questions.
Regards,
John Kwiatkoski Senior Developer Support Engineer
Hello,
I’ve just tested this, I deployed a new Cluster and it took about 4 minutes for the cluster to be up and running.
After that I tried deploying this test application with kubectl apply
and it worked instantly.
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
I found this great article that explains how to configure rolling updates (another place I was seeing downtime after kubectl apply
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