Nobody Is Running Your Manifest: How Kubernetes Reconciles Declared State
Your apply returned success and nothing happened. Nothing was running the manifest — a loop was, and ten minutes later it is still trying.
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Control Loop
No participant in the chain knows whether the overall goal was met. So when nothing happens, the first question is which loop stopped making progress.
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Desired State
A declaration has no return value and no completion event. What tells you whether it worked is the gap to actual state, and how long it has stayed open.