Kubernetes scheduler pod placement failure after autoscaling

a rack of servers in a server room

Problem Description The Claude inference service experiences a cascade of pending pods during traffic spikes. Typical symptoms observed in the kubectl get pods -n claude-prod output are: NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE claude-infer-7f9c9d8c9f-abcde 0/1 Pending 0 2m30s claude-infer-7f9c9d8c9f-fghij 0/1 Pending 0 2m30s … Relevant scheduler events (extracted from kubectl describe pod <pod>) contain the following … Read more