Intermittent delays in Kubernetes

We moved most of our production workload to Kubernetes and were relishing the advantages it was offering us by keeping a lot of things abstracted and not requiring any manual intervention from us … But no sooner, all these abstractions became problematic when the whole network stack of our cluster went down. We were left with no other option than to create a new cluster and migrate all our applications to it.

With this cluster wide outage, our whole infrastructure came into scrutiny and we were left clueless as to why this happened, this was when we decided to take…