Node Group creation failure due to kubelet label rejection, and nodes stuck NotReady due to missing vpc-cni addon during EKS 1.34 cluster setup

Infrastructure Pods pushed to the worker node due to control-plane taint, causing resource exhaustion and app Pod Pending

Mismatch between Service selector labels and Pod labels prevents Endpoints registration, causing 503 errors

Java Spring Boot apps in Staging EKS entering CrashLoopBackOff - fixing missing context path and insufficient initialDelaySeconds

OTEL Java agent fails to connect to Collector under Istio mTLS STRICT mode - resolved by adding PERMISSIVE exception for the Collector