Cloudflare's Trust Crisis - December 2025 Outage and the Human Cost

Three weeks after their worst outage since 2019, Cloudflare went down again. On December 5, 2025, a Lua code bug took down 28% of HTTP traffic for 25 minutes - the sixth major outage of 2025. Beyond the technical postmortem, this episode examines the pattern of repeated failures, community reactions, and the often-overlooked human cost to on-call engineers.

📰 News Segment Links:
• KubeCon Survey: How Platform Teams Are Adopting AI and IDPs
  https://thenewstack.io/kubecon-survey-how-platform-teams-are-adopting-ai-and-idps/
• GitHub Actions workflow dispatch now supports 25 inputs
  https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-04-actions-workflow-dispatch-workflows-now-support-25-inputs
• Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Louis Ryan (Google)
  https://www.infoq.com/presentations/hybrid-cloud-native-networking-enterprise/

Perfect for platform engineers, sres, and devops engineers dealing with infrastructure dependencies looking to level up their platform engineering skills.

Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00047-cloudflare-december-2025-outage-trust-crisis

Duration: 11:35

Host: Jordan and Alex

Category: Technology
Subcategory: Software How-To

Keywords: cloudflare, outage, cost, trust, cloud, episode, human, crisis, december