Erratic and slow behavior with create-react-app and Skaffold kubernetes
Ok. Disregard. Started with one replica and it worked fine. Two worked fine. Three worked if skaffold was already running, but not from a fresh skaffold dev --port-forward --tail.
skaffold ssh and then did a top. Was running out of RAM... well was at 86% utilization. Increased it from the default 2GB to 8GB and now it works fine.
First deleted the VM with minikube delete and then created a new one with minikube start --memory='8g'. All good now.