Pod Restarted 15 Times: How a Podman Bridge Triggered a microk8s Certificate Rotation
A small app of mine had been running quietly for months. Then one day, it showed: 15 restarts. The only log it produced was two lines: 1 2 3 4 Error: timed out Caused by: timed out The strange part: every other pod in the same cluster had restarted exactly 6 times. Same node, same moment — why did only this one crash 9 extra times? The answer turned out to be two problems stacked on top of each other. One was cluster-wide: all pods were being killed together. The other was app-level: only my app turned a brief dependency hiccup into a crash loop. ...