Minor incident

Linode: Issue in creating new LKE Enterprise cluster across regions

Affected: US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-West (Fremont) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Southeast (Atlanta) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-ORD (Chicago) Linode Kubernetes Engine, CA-Central (Toronto) Linode Kubernetes Engine, EU-West (London) Linode Kubernetes Engine, EU-Central (Frankfurt) Linode Kubernetes Engine, FR-PAR (Paris) Linode Kubernetes Engine, AP-South (Singapore) Linode Kubernetes Engine, AP-Northeast (Tokyo 2) Linode Kubernetes Engine, AP-West (Mumbai) Linode Kubernetes Engine, AP-Southeast (Sydney) Linode Kubernetes Engine, SE-STO (Stockholm) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-SEA (Seattle) Linode Kubernetes Engine, JP-OSA (Osaka) Linode Kubernetes Engine, IN-MAA (Chennai) Linode Kubernetes Engine, ID-CGK (Jakarta) Linode Kubernetes Engine, BR-GRU (São Paulo) Linode Kubernetes Engine, NL-AMS (Amsterdam) Linode Kubernetes Engine, ES-MAD (Madrid) Linode Kubernetes Engine, IT-MIL (Milan) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-MIA (Miami) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-LAX (Los Angeles) Linode Kubernetes Engine, GB-LON (London 2) Linode Kubernetes Engine, AU-MEL (Melbourne) Linode Kubernetes Engine, IN-BOM-2 (Mumbai 2) Linode Kubernetes Engine, DE-FRA-2 (Frankfurt 2) Linode Kubernetes Engine, SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2) Linode Kubernetes Engine, JP-TYO-3 (Tokyo 3) Linode Kubernetes Engine

Current status of Linode: Operational — live Linode status

Timeline

1. Oct 20, 2026, 12:29 UTC
   identified
   We are currently investigating an issue affecting the provisioning of new LKE Enterprise (LKE-E) clusters across all regions. Affected clusters may experience nodes that successfully reach a "Ready" state, but system critical components may fail to start properly, preventing workloads from running.
2. Oct 20, 2026, 12:33 UTC
   identified
   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
3. Oct 20, 2026, 12:34 UTC
   identified
   We are currently investigating an issue affecting the provisioning of new LKE Enterprise (LKE-E) clusters across all regions. Affected clusters may experience nodes that successfully reach a "Ready" state, but system critical components may fail to start properly, preventing workloads from running.
4. Oct 20, 2026, 14:06 UTC
   identified
   Our team has identified the issue affecting the LKE Enterprise service. We are working quickly to implement a fix, and we will provide an update as soon as the solution is in place.
5. Oct 20, 2026, 21:42 UTC
   resolved
   We haven’t observed any additional issues with the LKE service, and will now consider this incident resolved. If you continue to experience problems, please open a Support ticket for assistance.
6. Oct 21, 2026, 15:49 UTC
   postmortem
   Starting October 17, 2026, customers were unable to create new Linode Kubernetes Engine-Enterprise \(LKE-E\) clusters globally. The impact was limited to newly provisioned LKE-E clusters, while the existing clusters, ongoing customer workloads, and cluster scaling remained fully functional and were unaffected throughout the event. Investigation revealed that the impact occurred after Linode Virtual Private Cloud \(VPC\) subnet IDs crossed 1,000,000 \(one million\), following growth on October 17, 2026. Due to a software logic flaw, the Cloud Controller Manager parsed these 7-digit IDs into scientific notation instead of raw integers, rendering the IDs invalid and causing required core components to remain pending on newly created clusters. To mitigate the issue, Akamai deployed a fix to enforce strict integer formatting and patched existing custom resources to restore the affected clusters. Akamai’s internal testing confirmed that the newly provisioned test clusters were fully operational. With the successful testing, Akamai deployed the fix across the platform, and the impact was considered mitigated at around 19:49 UTC on October 20, 2026. Akamai is working on the root cause and will take appropriate preventive actions. We apologize for the impact and thank you for your patience and continued support. This summary reflects our current understanding of the incident based on available details. Our investigation remains ongoing, and findings may be updated as further information is reviewed.

Updates as published by Linode (original).