Production Readiness Checklist
A comprehensive checklist covering everything you need before putting a Kubernetes workload into production.
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This lesson covers production readiness:
- Resource requests/limits on every container
- Liveness and readiness probes configured
- PodDisruptionBudget (PDB) for graceful node drains
- Anti-affinity rules to spread replicas across nodes/zones
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaler configured
- Proper RBAC with least-privilege service accounts
- Image pull policy and private registry setup
- Resource quotas and LimitRanges per namespace
- Network policies (default deny)
- Secrets management (not plain YAML)
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