Where did those 800 pods come from?

Recently I merged a pull request that was like any other pull request. But things unfolded quite differently. Things didn&rsquo;t break, but could have. Things shouldn&rsquo;t have happened, but did. The typical unlikely combination of factors, involving Argo CD ApplicationSets and mysterious AWS EKS Fargate nodes, resulting in some head-scratching, troubleshooting and interesting take-aways. In…