diff --git a/core/src/plugins/kubernetes/api.ts b/core/src/plugins/kubernetes/api.ts
index fd2628e0cb..b9ba3097d8 100644
--- a/core/src/plugins/kubernetes/api.ts
+++ b/core/src/plugins/kubernetes/api.ts
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ import { PluginContext } from "../../plugin-context"
 import { PassThrough, Readable, Writable } from "stream"
 import { getExecExitCode } from "./status/pod"
 import { labelSelectorToString } from "./util"
-import AsyncLock = require("async-lock")
+import AsyncLock from "async-lock"
 import request = require("request-promise")
 import requestErrors = require("request-promise/errors")
 
@@ -998,7 +998,7 @@ async function requestWithRetry<R>(
       return await req()
     } catch (err) {
       if (shouldRetry(err)) {
-        retryLog = retryLog || log.debug("")
+        retryLog = retryLog || log.info("")
         if (usedRetries <= maxRetries) {
           const sleepMsec = minTimeoutMs + usedRetries * minTimeoutMs
           retryLog.setState(deline`
@@ -1039,7 +1039,11 @@ function shouldRetry(err: any): boolean {
     code = err.statusCode
   }
 
-  return (code && statusCodesForRetry.includes(code)) || !!errorMessageRegexesForRetry.find((regex) => msg.match(regex))
+  return (
+    (code && statusCodesForRetry.includes(code)) ||
+    err.code === "ECONNRESET" || // <- socket hang up
+    !!errorMessageRegexesForRetry.find((regex) => msg.match(regex))
+  )
 }
 
 const statusCodesForRetry: number[] = [
@@ -1061,6 +1065,8 @@ const errorMessageRegexesForRetry = [
   /ETIMEDOUT/,
   /ENOTFOUND/,
   /EAI_AGAIN/,
+  /ECONNRESET/,
+  /socket hang up/,
   // This usually isn't retryable
   // However on github actions there seems to be flakiness
   // And connections get refused temporarily only