- tl;dr - I took down my k8s cluster by letting it’s TLS certificates expire. Regenerating certificates, deleting /var/lib/kubelet/pki/kubelet-client-current, restarting the kubelet, recreating service accounts and restarting pods/services/deployments/daemonsets was what got me back to a working system without blowing everything away. Towards the end of 2019 I was visited by a small bit of failure adventure – resuscitating my tiny Kubernetes cluster after it’s TLS certificates had expir...