Linode (Akamai) outage, 13 August 2026
Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine (IAD2)
- Started
- Resolved
- 13 Aug 2026, 17:54 UTC (after 1 h 37 min)
- Impact
- Minor
- Affected
- US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine
Last update from Linode (Akamai)
Beginning at approximately 14:50 UTC on August 13, 2026, customers who attempted to provision Linode Kubernetes Engine Enterprise \(LKE-E\) clusters in the IAD2 data center were unable to. We identified that the issue was due to the exclusion of two components in IAD2 in a recent software version upgrade which resulted in an API mismatch. We updated the identified components to bring them in sync with the expected state. This mitigated the issue at approximately 16:00 UTC on August 13, 2026. To prevent this issue from occurring in the future, we are reviewing LKE software update processes to ensure that all included components complete version upgrades before being reintroduced to service...
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