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Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine

On October 22, 2026, starting around 11:10 UTC, a new Debian Kubernetes image was made available. The metadata for that image included malformed data, which resulted in Linode provisioning failures on LKE clusters due to validation errors. Akamai immediately began investigating the issue and working to correct it. We corrected the malformed data at 12:50 UTC on October 22, 2026 and service was restored. This summary provides an overview of our current understanding of the incident given the information available. Our investigation is ongoing, and any information herein is subject to change.

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State

Resolved

Started

10 d ago

2026-10-22 13:58 UTC

Lasted

1 min

until 2026-10-22 13:58 UTC

Worst impact

Notice

Timeline

2 updates
13:5813:5913:5913:5913:59
NoticeUpdate postedTimes in UTC

Resolved

1 min 100%

Updates

Times in UTC

As posted by Akamai Cloud (Linode)

Postmortem2026-10-22 16:00 UTC

On October 22, 2026, starting around 11:10 UTC, a new Debian Kubernetes image was made available. The metadata for that image included malformed data, which resulted in Linode provisioning failures on LKE clusters due to validation errors. Akamai immediately began investigating the issue and working to correct it. We corrected the malformed data at 12:50 UTC on October 22, 2026 and service was restored. This summary provides an overview of our current understanding of the incident given the information available. Our investigation is ongoing, and any information herein is subject to change.

Resolved2026-10-22 13:58 UTC

Our team identified an issue affecting the Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE). During the impact timeframe (~11:10-12:50 UTC), new worker nodes were unable to provision. We have been able to correct the issues affecting the LKE service and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience problems, please open a Support ticket for assistance.

Affected components

31
US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-West (Fremont) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-Southeast (Atlanta) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes EngineUS-ORD (Chicago) Linode Kubernetes EngineCA-Central (Toronto) Linode Kubernetes EngineEU-West (London) Linode Kubernetes Engine

Akamai Cloud (Linode) in the last 90 days

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Incidents in 90 days

27

Days with an incident

89

Median duration

6 h 29 min

This incident

100% shorter than the median

How long each incident lasted, on the day it started. The outlined bar is this incident.

15 days
median 6 h 29 min
90 days agoToday

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