Answer
Pods keep entering/exiting load balancer rotation, destabilizing traffic.
Quick Answer
A failing readiness probe removes the Pod from Service endpoints — it stops receiving new traffic. If many Pods fail readiness simultaneously (e.g., due to a dependency like a DB being slow), the Service routes all traffic to the few remaining ready Pods — overloading them, causing them to fail readiness too, cascading until the service is down.
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