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How does Kubernetes prevent two controllers from updating the same object at same time?

Senior Kubernetes
Quick Answer Optimistic concurrency with resourceVersion handles it: both controllers read the object, both see the same resourceVersion, both try to update รขโ‚ฌโ€ only the first write succeeds. The second gets a 409 Conflict. The losing controller re-reads the latest version and retries from the new state. No locking needed รขโ‚ฌโ€ just retry on conflict.

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Controllers use resourceVersion with optimistic concurrency and caching.
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