# hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories

Compilation of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes

Repository: https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kubernetes-failure-stories
Homepage: https://k8s.af
Language: HTML
License Family: other
Topics: kubernetes, postmortem, incidents, failures, production-engineering, sre, reliability, post-mortem
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-08-23T11:16:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2783, "days_push": 2201, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6224, forks 330 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:40.706782+00:00)

## What it is
A curated compilation of links to public postmortems and failure stories about Kubernetes outages in production. It is published as the website k8s.af and organized by year, affected components, and impact.

## Use cases
- find real-world kubernetes outage postmortems
- learn common ways kubernetes clusters fail
- research production incidents before running k8s
- find stories about CPU limits, DNS, and CNI failures
- prepare SRE training material from real incidents
- avoid repeating known kubernetes pitfalls

## When to avoid
- you need a tool or library rather than reading material
- you need up-to-date incident reports - the list has not been actively updated since 2023

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation
- domain: cloud-computing, monitoring
- platform: -
- tags: kubernetes, postmortem, sre, reliability, incident-stories, awesome-list, devops, web-server

## Member repositories
- hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.706782+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:14.379453+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:40.706782+00:00, sha 8a9978f58ffe)
  - homepage: https://k8s.af (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:32.375717+00:00, sha 08ba1d814cbb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.