Policy & security
Guardrails to keep clusters compliant and secure.
- Admission controls, OPA/Kyverno policies, and image signing
- RBAC patterns, secrets management, and network policies
- Baseline hardening and benchmark alignment (CIS/Kubernetes)
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Kubernetes Reliability Checklist
Ensure your clusters are production-ready before scaling critical workloads. Validate policies, chaos testing, observability, and operational readiness in one place.
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What you can validate
Reliability & capacity
Patterns to avoid noisy neighbors and capacity surprises.
- Requests/limits hygiene, autoscaling, and pod disruption budgets
- DR drills, backup/restore checks, and multi-AZ/region scenarios
- Resilience tests for ingress, service mesh, and data plane
Observability & runbooks
Signal and processes that keep on-call calm.
- Golden signals dashboards and deploy markers
- Log/trace coverage for critical paths and infra components
- Runbooks, SLOs, and incident drills tailored to Kubernetes
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Harden your Kubernetes operations
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