The forward upgrade to 26.7.3 was zero downtime across 87 samples, and since databasechangelog stayed at 210 the rollback to 26.7.0 also succeeded, which narrows D-2's conclusion: rolling back fails when the schema moved, not because of the version number. The row count is the check.
Role changes never reach the upstream through request repetition; the session is a snapshot taken at login and only a new session picks up the new claim. Auditing the docs also surfaced that Prometheus scrapes only keycloak, kubelet, node-exporter and itself, so the B-layer experiments have no metrics to screenshot rather than missing screenshots.
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Stopping Redis returns HTTP 000 rather than an error because the client waits on reconnect, and the pod keeps serving traffic because the redis health indicator is not in the readiness group even though /actuator/health returns 503. That is the mirror image of A-2, where Keycloak put its database check in readiness and the pods left the Service.
Turning on AOF with config set created the appendonlydir and still lost everything on pod deletion, because /data was the container filesystem; adding a PVC makes the same setting work. Volume first, persistence setting second.
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