Function Deployment Failing – RenokiCo\PhpK8s\Kinds\K8sPod Exception

Hey, I’m trying to deploy a Node.js function (via GitHub and also manually tested) and I keep getting this error during deployment:

Exception::__construct(): Argument #1 ($message) must be of type string, RenokiCo\PhpK8s\Kinds\K8sPod given

What I'm trying to do: I'm building a metadata ingestion function that loops through image files in an Appwrite storage bucket, extracts EXIF or PNG text metadata (e.g. prompt, model, software), and saves that info to a collection in the database. It works fine locally, but never even boots in Appwrite Cloud.

Details:

• Runtime: Node.js 18 (I also tried 22)
• Entrypoint: src/main.js
• Root directory: .
• Happens both with GitHub CI and manual deploy
• The function never initializes — looks like a platform-level issue with Appwrite Cloud (syd region)

Here’s the error URL: http://682c1f3a1997601381e6.syd.appwrite.run

Thanks in advance 🙏

Just to add — I’ve already double-checked that all environment variables (like APPWRITE_API_KEY, BUCKET_ID, DATABASE_ID, etc.) are correctly set in the function settings. So I don’t think this is an issue on my end with missing config.