Scaling Lab Fix
Order-helidon was scaling on a single k8s node. Add a topologySpreadConstraints clause to the deployment.yaml to force replicas to deploy across all the available nodes.
It would appear that the replica distribution behavior is dependent on whether the ingress service is running. If it is not running, replicas are distributed across nodes. If it is running, all the replicas were created on the same node. The topologySpreadConstraints clause overrides this behavior.