When upgrading Puppet Application Manager you get an “error when evicting pod” error in Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise

When you upgrade Puppet Application Manager (PAM), you get an error when evicting pod...Cannot evict pod as it would violate the pod's disruption budget. The upgrade completes successfully, but you’re not sure if the error indicates other issues.

Error messages and logs

error when evicting pod "query-postgres-0" (will retry after 5s): Cannot evict pod as it would violate the pod's disruption budget.

Pod disruption budget is a feature that prevents downtime by limiting the number of pods of a replicated application that are down simultaneously from voluntary disruptions. The error indicates that the pod disruption budget upper limit was reached, but doesn’t indicate that anything else is wrong.

Version and installation information

Product: Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise
Version: 4.x

Solution

An error when evicting pod error while upgrading PAM doesn’t indicate any issues, and you don’t need to complete any steps to fix it. However, if you have other issues with PAM, let us know by opening a ticket.