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Cause:

The changes applied after the last outage required a manual update of k8s resources for the production instance. This became only apparent after a new deployment to production earlier today.

Detection

On August 8, 2024 at 16:32 CEST, our betteruptime.com monitors reported that open-vsx.org was no longer reachable.

Lead up

In Kubernetes based cluster environments, services like websites are running in isolated docker environments called pods. In order to route incoming traffic for a specific URL (e.g. open-vsx.org) to the right pod, so-called services are defined which select the right pods based on a set of custom labels such as “app=open-vsx-org, environment=production”. ...

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