Best
Practices.
Industry standards for production infrastructure. Codified from thousands of hours of SRE experience.
Security
RBAC Configuration Guide
How to configure Role-Based Access Control properly. Least privilege principles, service account best practices, and auditing role bindings across namespaces.
Read more SecurityNetwork Policy Patterns
Zero-trust networking in Kubernetes. Default deny policies, allowing specific traffic flows, and validating that your policies actually work in production.
Read moreScaling
Auto-Scaling Best Practices
HPA vs. VPA vs. KEDA. When to use each, how to configure target metrics, and avoiding the pitfalls of over-provisioning and thrashing.
Read more ScalingNode Pool Strategies
How to structure node pools for mixed workloads. Spot instances for batch jobs, dedicated pools for stateful services, and right-sizing for cost efficiency.
Read moreMonitoring
Alerting Strategy
Symptom-based alerting over cause-based. How to set up meaningful alerts that reduce noise, prevent alert fatigue, and catch real issues before users notice.
Read more MonitoringObservability Stack Setup
Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki in production. Metric collection, log aggregation, distributed tracing, and building dashboards that your team will actually use.
Read moreCost Optimization
Cost Tagging Standards
Tag your resources consistently across teams and environments. Enforce tagging policies, allocate costs per service, and build chargeback reports your CFO will love.
Read more CostRight-Sizing Resources
Most teams over-provision by 40-60%. How to analyze actual resource usage, set proper requests and limits, and use VPA recommendations to cut waste.
Read moreBest practices built in.
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