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How to recover opensearch cluster when its in post-start hook fail

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Summary

we have seen the Opensearch post-start hook fail indefinitely, leading the pod to become stuck.
In 4.10.0, there is no timeout so the pod gets stuck in PodInitializing and also cannot successfully terminate without manual intervention.

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Modified date:
06 August 2025

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