title: Kubernetes Pod warm-up for load balancing
body: <p>We are having a Kubernetes service whose pods take some time to warm up with first requests. Basically first incoming requests will read some cached values from Redis and these requests might take a bit longer to process. When these newly created pods become ready and receive full traffic, they might become not very responsive for up to 30 seconds, before everything is correctly loaded from Redis and cached.</p>
  
  <p>I know, we should definitely restructure the application to prevent this, unfortunately that is not feasible in a near future (we are working on it). </p>
  
  <p>It would be great if it was possible to reduce the weight of the newly created pods, so they would receive 1/10 of the traffic in the beggining with the weight increasing as the time would pass. This would be also great for newly deployed versions of our application to see if it behaves correctly.</p>