Trident Pods CrashLoopBackOff and Rubrik Failures due to Network policy
Applies to
- NetApp Trident (CSI driver)
- NetApp ONTAP 9.17.1P2
- OpenShift 4.19.x / Kubernetes 1.32.x
- Rubrik backup integration with Trident-managed PVCs
Issue
Rubrik backups of the mas-masprd-core namespace failed on Trident-managed PVCs. Multiple Trident node pods were stuck in CrashLoopBackOff state, with pod logs showing readiness probe failures:
Readiness probe failed: HTTP probe failed with status code: 503Sample pod status:
trident-node-linux-5jr6f 0/2 CrashLoopBackOff ...trident-node-linux-69lhc 0/2 CrashLoopBackOff ......Additionally, numerous pending and successful DELETE operations for snapshots were observed on the relevant volumes. Rubrik was unable to complete backups due to these Trident pod failures.
