Bad configuration
Bad configuration is an umbrella term. Your Kubernetes cluster state is configuration; your containers' command-line arguments are configuration; all the environment variables used by Kubernetes, your application services, and any third-party services are configuration; and all the configuration files are configuration. In some data-driven systems, configuration is stored in various data stores. Configuration issues are very common because, usually, there aren't any established good practices to test them. They often have various fallbacks (for example, search path for configuration files) and defaults, and the production-environment configuration is different to the development or staging environment.
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