Kubernetes: a runbook for email failures
A pipeline can show a healthy pod and still fail when it needs to read a verification email. This case is confusing because it mixes several dependencies: Kubernetes, the message queue, the mail provider, and the mailbox used by the test. In a pager, the question “did the mail arrive?” is not very helpful. It is better to ask at what layer the signal was lost and what evidence we have. This runbook…
A pipeline can show a healthy pod but still fail when it needs to read a verification email. This issue is complex as it involves multiple dependencies, including Kubernetes, message queue, email provider, and test mailbox. To troubleshoot, it's better to investigate which layer the signal was lost in and what evidence is available, rather than simply restarting the entire cluster.
A proposed runbook suggests dividing the investigation into four checks: application, queue and worker, mailbox, and test, to identify the root cause of the failure.
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