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Deployment update completes successfully but application behavior hasn't changed

A possible ConfigMap or Secret issue -- the application may cache config at startup. Check whether the relevant ConfigMap or Secret was updated. If volume-mounted, the file may have updated but the application hasn't reloaded. If env var, a rolling restart is needed.

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