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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Every secret in the lab prints in four commands, while kubectl describe shows just a byte count and creates the impression that something is hidden. k3s reports encryption at rest disabled and the plaintext password is present in state.db, so one node disk carries the whole cluster's secrets, and inside the pod they are ordinary environment variables visible to exec, /proc and crash dumps.
The default service account cannot read secrets, which makes RBAC the one control doing real work here and the thing worth tightening.
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