Our rollout finished in two minutes and the new pods started crashing in the fifth

By Sergey Shinder · DEV Community · 10/28/2026

In May release 7.3 of our delivery tracking API went out at eleven in the morning. The pipeline watched kubectl rollout status, which reported success after two minutes, and marked the deploy green. By the seventh minute every one of the twelve new pods had restarted at least once, and none of the…

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