kubernetes

Something that surprised me when I first started using Kubernetes was how open the default network is. By…

Manually adjusting replica counts based on traffic patterns is one of those tasks that feels manageable until it…

I’ve never trusted a Kubernetes cluster I couldn’t see into. Pods can restart, nodes can silently run low…

Rolling updates are the default way most people ship changes to Kubernetes, and honestly, they’re the strategy I…

For a long time, “Kubernetes is for stateless apps” was conventional wisdom, and running a database on it…

Containers are meant to be ephemeral — kill one, start another, nobody should notice. That’s a great property…

Every cluster I’ve inherited that wasn’t set up carefully from day one had the same problem: nearly everyone…

One of the first questions I get from people new to Kubernetes is some version of “I deployed…

Scaling is one of the reasons people adopt Kubernetes in the first place, and yet it’s also one…

Stateless applications are the bread and butter of Kubernetes — no persistent identity, no local data that needs…