The default RollingUpdate (maxSurge 25% → one extra pod) needs 450m CPU beside the running pod; the node has 1700m allocatable and 1470m requested. The Tablet-30 rollout sat Pending for five minutes while the old image kept serving. maxSurge 0 / maxUnavailable 1: the old pod goes first, the new one schedules, and is Ready once the kohen writes manna. Patched live 2026-10-04; this makes the manifest match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>