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Large data mounts slow kubelet volume setup and Pod initialization.
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Kubernetes projects ConfigMaps and Secrets into Pods via the API server. Kubelet watches these resources and syncs them into the Pod. Large ConfigMaps mean more data to transfer, more etcd I/O per watch event, and more time for kubelet to process and write files into the container. The sync loop adds latency proportional to data size.
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