How to increase shm size of a kubernetes container (--shm-size equivalent of docker)

I originally bumped into this post coming from google and went through the whole kubernetes issue and openshift workaround. Only to find the much simpler solution listed on another stackoverflow answer later.

It's not possible to do this in a kubernetes pod. See this issue

There is a workaround from openshift mentioned in the comments, but it may not be ideal

EDIT: at the time this question was asked, this was not possible. It now is, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47921100/645002 for the correct answer