Half your inference fleet went unschedulable overnight and nobody deployed anything. Start.

The pods are Pending, the nodes are Ready, and the GPUs have vanished from allocatable. Something changed on the node under a fleet that nobody considered part of the deploy surface.

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The pods are Pending, the nodes are Ready, and the GPUs have vanished from allocatable. Something changed on the node under a fleet that nobody considered part of the deploy surface.

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