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  1. IL-0165 Some LKE users in Frankfurt could not reach their kube-apiservers with kubectl after backend services failed under memory constraints
    Linode2023
    Symptoms

    At 14:11 UTC on May 25, 2023, Linode learned that part of its LKE users in the Frankfurt data center could not reach their kube-apiservers through kubectl. The status page opened at 14:27 UTC with "We are investigating reports of connectivity issues with the LKE service within the Frankfurt Datacenter".

    Control plane unresponsive
    Root cause
    Capacity exhaustion
    Component
    Kubernetes API serverContainer memory limit
    Contributing factor
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    Detection

    Linode was made aware of the problem at 14:11 UTC; the status page refers to reports of connectivity issues.

    Remediation
    • increased memory limits
    Action items
    • Increase resilience, redundancy and monitoring for the LKE components affected by the incident
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  1. IL-0165 Some LKE users in Frankfurt could not reach their kube-apiservers with kubectl after backend services failed under memory constraints
    Linode2023