Kine on Rusty Bowerhttps://www.rustybower.com/tags/kine/Recent content in Kine on Rusty BowerHugo -- gohugo.ioen© Rusty BowerTue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000How K3s Silently Grew a 40 GB SQLite Database and Took Down My Clusterhttps://www.rustybower.com/posts/k3s-sqlite-kine-40gb-database-compaction/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.rustybower.com/posts/k3s-sqlite-kine-40gb-database-compaction/<p>My cluster — a single-node K3s instance running about 60 ArgoCD-managed applications — had been slowly dying for months. Pods crash-looped with &ldquo;context deadline exceeded&rdquo; errors. Leader elections failed. The metrics server stopped working entirely. I assumed it was resource pressure and tuned probe timeouts. The real problem was underneath all of it: K3s&rsquo;s SQLite datastore had silently grown to 40 GB.</p>