Bug ID 1628569: Kubevirt pods virt-api, virt-controller, and virt-handler report readiness/liveness probe errors due to timeout issues

Last Modified: Jul 15, 2026

Affected Product(s):
F5OS F5OS-A(all modules)

Fixed In:
F5OS v2.0.0

Opened: Aug 16, 2024

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Warning events are logged indicating readiness and liveness probe failures for kubevirt pods (virt-api, virt-controller, virt-operator) and coredns with errors such as "context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)" and "EOF".

Impact

Pods may be incorrectly marked as unhealthy, potentially leading to unnecessary pod restarts and brief service disruptions.

Conditions

This issue occurs when the system experiences transient high CPU load, causing probe responses to exceed the previously configured 1-second timeout.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Increased health check probe timeout values from 1 second to 10 seconds for coredns, virt-api, and virt-controller deployments to prevent false-positive probe failures under transient load conditions.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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