KUBETUX FILMS
backoff:~$

BACKOFF

An anime series that debugs Kubernetes. Every error is a monster. Every fix is a story.

// season one

Episodes

Five errors. Five monsters. One engineer who reads the logs before he blames the machine.

backoff:~$ kubectl get episodes
EPNAMEERRORSTATUSAGE
01137CrashLoopBackOff · OOMKilled Running1/1
02Not FoundImagePullBackOff Pending
03PendingUnschedulable Pending
04EvictedNode pressure Pending
05The ProbelivenessProbe Pending

// the cast

The Cast

A worker who refuses to stay down. An operator bound by protocol. An engineer who never opens the door. And the thing that assembles from failed work.

Podo — character sheet pod-07

Podo

the pod

Boots, takes the task, gets crushed by it, and stands up again. He doesn't know how to quit — that's the problem.

Kubel — character sheet node agent

Kubel

the kubelet

Restarts him every time, a little later each time. Never angry, never late, never allowed to ask why.

The Debugger — character sheet read-only

The Debugger

the engineer

Never fights. Never enters the room. Reads the logs from the corridor and pulls one lever — the right one.

137 — character sheet OOMKilled

137

exit code

Assembles itself from failed work. Doesn't hate you. Doesn't see you. It only collects what ran out of room.

// locations

The World

A cluster you can walk through. Every pod is a room. Every node is a corridor. The control plane watches from the spire.

Pod-07 server room, red state

Pod-07

server room · CrashLoopBackOff

The node corridor

The Node

corridor of pods · the row is backing off

The control plane spire

The Spire

control plane · it schedules, it watches

KUBETUX FILMS studio mark — a silhouetted rider surfing a ship's wheel with a penguin

// the studio

KUBETUX FILMS

A one-person animation studio riding the helm through the storm — turning the errors every engineer fears into stories anyone can follow. Painted by hand, assembled by machine, debugged at 3 AM.

created by ANUP NARKHEDE