Second install-test run, three findings, all measured: - Readiness on "/" failed with "http: server gave HTTP response to HTTPS client" on a pod that was answering correctly. The kubelet's HTTP prober follows redirects to the same host, and with RAILS_ASSUME_SSL=true the app builds its redirect as https://<pod-ip>:3000/registration/new, which Puma does not speak. The probe now runs curl without -L and accepts 2xx-3xx itself. The same log also proves what the probe is for: against an empty database the redirect target was /registration/new, the branch User.count decides, so the path really does reach Postgres. - The pod was evicted within two minutes of every start: "ephemeral local storage usage exceeds the total limit of containers 60Mi". emptyDirs and the stdout log both count there, and the image rebuilds its Bootsnap cache under /rails/tmp on every start because the emptyDir hides the one baked into the image. The request is now 256Mi (limit 768Mi) per app container - headroom, not a measurement. - /home/rails is read-only, so Bundler created a throwaway home under TMPDIR on every invocation, worker probe included. HOME now points at a directory the init container creates. The CI postgres fixture gets -d sure on its readiness probe, so the server stops logging a missing database that nothing asked for.