Hasura Admin UI can be very slow when run inside minikube / Kubernetes

^{Originally posted by **delaurentis** April 23, 2024}
**Background**

- In production, we run Hasura in Kubernetes / GKE inside Google Cloud.
- For local development, we mirror this setup, by running Hasura inside Kuberntes / minikube.

**Problem**

We've noticed that using the Hasura Admin UI can become very slow (30 seconds - 1 minute for pages to load). Some operations, like applying permissions can take 10+ minutes. This happens even on high end development machines with lots of RAM / CPU power (16GB, with 8GB reserved to running Kubernetes locally with Minikube)

When we run Hasura outside of Kubernetes, Hasura Admin UI is fast (pages load quickly, and applying permissions happens in <1 minute).

**Advice Needed :)**

Any tips for improving Hasura's performance with Kubernetes or debugging why it is so slow?

Here's our Kubernetes stateful set definition for Hasura for reference (containers are created for both postgres and hasura)

```
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: StatefulSet
metadata:
name: postgresdb
spec:
serviceName: 'postgresdb'
replicas: 1
selector:
matchLabels:
app: postgresdb
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: postgresdb
spec:

containers:
- name: postgresdb
image:
imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
args:
- -c
- hba_file=/etc/postgres/conf/pg_hba.conf
- -c
- config_file=/etc/postgres/conf/postgresql.conf
- -c
- jit=off
ports:
- containerPort: 5432
volumeMounts:
- name: db-data
mountPath: /home/postgres/pgdata
- name: db-certs
mountPath: /etc/postgres/ssl
- name: db-config
mountPath: /etc/postgres/conf
- name: hasura
image: hasura/graphql-engine:v2.15.2
ports:
- containerPort: 8080
env:
- name: ACTION_BASE_URL
value: http://host.minikube.internal:3000
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_METADATA_DATABASE_URL
value: postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/tsdb
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_DATABASE_URL
value: postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/tsdb
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_TS_DATABASE_URL
value: postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/tsdb
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLE_CONSOLE
value: 'true'
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_DEV_MODE
value: 'true'
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_ENABLED_LOG_TYPES
value: startup, http-log, webhook-log, websocket-log, query-log
- name: PGSSLMODE
value: disable
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_ADMIN_SECRET
value:
- name: HASURA_GRAPHQL_JWT_SECRET
value: '{"type":"HS256","key":""}'
volumes:
- name: db-readonly-certs
secret:
secretName: db-tls-secret
- name: db-config
configMap:
name: postgres-config
- name: db-certs
emptyDir: {}
- name: log
emptyDir: {}

volumeClaimTemplates:
- metadata:
name: db-data
spec:
accessModes: ['ReadWriteOnce']
storageClassName: 'standard'
resources:
requests:
storage: 10Gi
```