Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

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Author: compumike

Date: 7/1/2026

Article Summary:
An engineer from HeyOnCall identified and fixed a memory leak in the Kubernetes 1.36 kubelet component, which was caused by a change in the code that resulted in the leak of almost a million contexts.