Kubernetes in Production: What No One Tells You Before You Deploy

Kubernetes is the gold standard for container orchestration. But the gap between a working cluster and a production-ready one is enormous. Here are the lessons we’ve learned the hard way.

Resource Requests & Limits

Not setting resource requests and limits is the #1 cause of noisy-neighbour issues in shared clusters. Every pod must declare both CPU and memory limits, period.

Observability is Not Optional

Deploy Prometheus, Grafana, and an alerting stack before your first production workload. You cannot manage what you cannot measure.