26What does a PodDisruptionBudget actually protect against, and why did your zero-downtime deployment drop requests anyway?▼mediumGoogleLinkedInSwiggy○ sign inPDB 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.Open full answer →
58A cluster upgrade has been stuck on one node for forty minutes and the drain never completes. What is holding it?▼mediumGoogleRed HatAtlassian◆ premiumA drain that hangs without erroring is almost always eviction being refused, and the two refusals that look identical from the outside have opposite fixes.Open full answer →