Kubernetes notes from production experience — pod lifecycle, scheduling, autoscaling, traffic routing, and the production hygiene that separates a cluster that works from one that keeps working under pressure.
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Get requests and limits wrong and you either waste half your cluster or get pods OOM-killed and CPU-throttled at the worst moment. A practical guide to setting them.
The defaults work fine in dev. They will betray you in prod. Here's the checklist I run on every cluster before I let it hold real traffic.
If you've ever stared at a 200-line YAML and wondered who hurt the people who designed this — this is for you. The mental model that makes K8s actually click, in plain language.