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Worth the Wait: Making SimKube Pod Startup More Realistic

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Ian O’Gorman
Jun 22, 2026
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If you’re detail-oriented, skeptical, or just enjoy watching Pod transitions in your spare time, you may have noticed a peculiar behavior in SimKube: Pods transition to Running very quickly. That isn’t because SimKube is broken but because those Pods are being simulated.

SimKube uses KWOK (Kubernetes WithOut Kubelet) to simulate large clusters efficientl…

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