Merge pull request #496 from asmacdo/increase-inotify-watches

Document inotify config for kind deployments

Author: marcelovilla

docs/docs/how-tos/nebari-local.md

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+### Increase fs watches
+
+Depending on your host system, you may need to increase the `fs.inotify.max_user_watches` and
+`fs.inotify.max_user_instances kernel parameters` if you see the error "too many open files" in the logs of
+a failing pod.
+
+```bash
+sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
+sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512
+```
+
+See the [kind troubleshooting
+docs](https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/known-issues/#pod-errors-due-to-too-many-open-files) for more information.
+
 ## Deploying Nebari
 
 With the `nebari-config.yaml` configuration file now created, Nebari can be deployed for the first time with: