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How do you load balance the Kubernetes control plane, and what breaks first when every client points at one API server endpoint?

Three API servers behind one health-checked endpoint, etcd on its own quorum, leader election everywhere else. The scored part is naming what degrades quietly before anything alerts.

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Three API servers behind one health-checked endpoint, etcd on its own quorum, leader election everywhere else. The scored part is naming what degrades quietly before anything alerts.

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