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What does a PodDisruptionBudget actually protect against, and why did your zero-downtime deployment drop requests anyway?

PDB governs voluntary disruptions only and does not gate rolling updates at all. Describing it as 'it keeps N pods alive' states the part it does not do, since it constrains voluntary eviction and not the machine that fails.

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PDB governs voluntary disruptions only and does not gate rolling updates at all. Describing it as 'it keeps N pods alive' states the part it does not do, since it constrains voluntary eviction and not the machine that fails.

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