Transmission Down 11+ Hours — PodSecurity Time Bomb

Eleven hours after the cluster rebuild, I tried to use Transmission and it wasn’t there. Not erroring. Not crash-looping. Just… not there. The pod had never been created, and I hadn’t noticed because nothing screamed at me about it. Two chained time bombs, both invisible until the cluster rebuild forced pod recreation. The first one was a PodSecurity policy that silently blocked Gluetun’s NET_ADMIN capability. The second — stale IPv6 IP rules from the previous pod’s unclean shutdown — was hiding behind it. ...

March 8, 2026 · 14 min · Amaury Yacksmith