Real-time bot detection adapter based on Istio EnvoyFilter ext_authz — Go gRPC server integrated with AI Defense API to block ticketing bots

Route53 records deleted by external-dns sync policy, and Secrets Manager values overwritten on terraform apply — both resolved

App container starting before Istio sidecar is ready, causing external service connection failures — resolved with holdApplicationUntilProxyStarts

k6-operator incorrectly determined MaxVUs=1, causing a parallelism error — root cause was missing env vars in the Initializer Pod

Simultaneous DiskPressure on mini-gmk node and CrashLoopBackOff across multiple services — resolved