Availability of your applications, and availability of the kubernetes control plane, are not typically correlated. One of the nice things about how Kubernetes o

Availability of your applications, and availability of the kubernetes control plane, are not typically correlated. One of the nice things about how Kubernetes orchestrates is that the master is not in the path of requests. Ie, in many situations the Kubernetes master may be unavailable, but your applications will be unaffected and can still serve traffic.