A cloud engineer notices that a containerized application is consistently being OOMKilled (Out of Memory Killed) by the container runtime, but the underlying node still has available memory. What is the most likely root cause and the appropriate fix?

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A. The container's memory limit is set too low in its resource specification; increase the memory limit to match the application's actual memory requirements. OOMKill occurs when a container exceeds its configured memory limit (not the node's total memory), causing the runtime to terminate it. The fix is to analyze the application's actual memory usage and increase the container memory limit in its resource specification. The CompTIA Cloud+ V4 Troubleshooting domain covers deployment and service disruption issues.

A cloud engineer notices that a containerized application is consistently being OOMKilled (Out of Memory Killed) by the container runtime, but the underlying node still has available memory. What is the most likely root cause and the appropriate fix?

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