Kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36 traced to context cancellations and patched
A 2 GiB DigitalOcean node on Kubernetes 1.36 ran out of memory as the kubelet process grew unchecked. Using Go's pprof, the author traced the leak to a flood of context cancellation objects and applied a targeted fix that stops the leak, stabilizing the node and preventing pod restarts.