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Deployment rolling update stalled with 5/6 Pods at new version

The 6th Pod is not passing readiness. Check kubectl logs on the new-version Pod and describe for events. The 5 existing ready Pods count against maxUnavailable so the rollout cannot remove one until the 6th is ready.

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