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Kubernetes Deep Dive 22 min read Updated Jan 2025

Running Kubernetes in Production - the parts the docs do not warn you about

Getting a Kubernetes cluster running is not the hard part. Keeping it running when your namespace quotas are wrong, your HPA is fighting with your VPA, and your nodes are being evicted at 3am - that is where most guides stop. This one does not.

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Pod disruption budgets Namespace resource quotas HPA vs VPA Node affinity & taints Cluster Autoscaler config Network policy with Cilium Multi-tenant RBAC Rolling update strategy Persistent volume claims
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GitHub Actions zero-downtime deployment to Kubernetes - a working pattern

Most GitHub Actions Kubernetes examples push directly to production without a canary stage or health check gate. This guide shows the workflow we actually use - parallel test matrix, Trivy scan, canary deploy, automated smoke test, and rollback trigger.

$ gh workflow run deploy.yml --ref main
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