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API returns 503 after deployment though all pods look healthy. What do you check first?

Tests whether you check the service/ingress routing and endpoint registration first -- pods can be individually healthy while the service selector, endpoint list, or ingress config hasn't caught up with the new deployment, routing traffic nowhere or to terminated pods.

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