Briefing
The catalog rollout finished ten minutes ago and every pod dashboard is green: two replicas, Ready, no restarts.
Anything inside the cluster that calls the catalog by its Service name gets connection refused, and product pages are rendering with blank prices.
The Deployment and its Service were consolidated into a single stack.yaml earlier this week.
Dev suspects kube-proxy on the node.
The fix is yours to find: hints, the recovery checks and the debrief unlock inside the incident.