6 articles tagged with "deployment"
Spent a whole Sunday debugging why 30% of user requests returned 502 errors — turns out our pods were 'Running' but completely brain-dead. Kubernetes health probes would have caught it in seconds. Here's everything I wish I'd known.
Skipping resource limits in Kubernetes is like driving without a seatbelt — fine until it isn't. I learned this the hard way when one rogue pod starved the entire cluster at 2 AM. Here's what I wish I knew sooner.
Your pod keeps dying with OOMKilled and you have no idea why? After getting paged at 3 AM more times than I care to admit, I learned that Kubernetes resource limits aren't optional — they're the difference between a stable cluster and a cascading meltdown.
CI/CD pipelines are supposed to make your life easier. So why does every team have at least one war story about a 3am deployment gone wrong? Here are the real-world lessons that will save your weekends.
Your Kubernetes pod crashed but it's still getting requests? After watching production apps silently die while Kubernetes kept routing traffic to them, I finally understood liveness and readiness probes - and you need them too.
Skipped setting resource requests and limits? Your cluster is a ticking time bomb. After watching production nodes get OOM-killed at 3am, I learned the hard way - here's how to set sane limits before your pods eat each other alive.