Tag: Karpenter

Problems with Karpenter

ID	Title	Description	Category	Technology	Tags
prequel-2025-0090 High Impact: 8/10 Mitigation: 5/10	Karpenter version incompatible with Kubernetes version; Pods cannot be scheduled	Karpenter is unable to provision new nodes because the current Karpenter version is not compatible with Kubernetes version . This incompatibility causes validation errors in the nodeclass controller and prevents pods from being scheduled properly in the cluster.	Kubernetes Provisioning Problems	karpenter	AWS Karpenter Kubernetes
prequel-2025-0105 Medium Impact: 7/10 Mitigation: 5/10	Karpenter NodePool budget exceeded; Pods cannot be scheduled	Karpenter is used to automatically provision Kubernetes nodes. NodePools can define a maximum budget for total resource usage to prevent unexpectedly expensive cloud bills. When the budget is reached, Karpenter will stop provisioning new nodes and new pods will fail to schedule.	Autoscaling Problems	karpenter	Karpenter Kubernetes Autoscaling Capacity Budgets