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K8s Readiness Checklist

Track your path to production readiness.

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Application Design

Stateless Application Architecture
Health Chips (Liveness/Readiness)
Graceful Shutdown Handling
Config via Environment Variables
Container Image Optimization (<500MB)

Security

Non-root User Execution
Read-only Root Filesystem
Network Policies Defined
Secrets Management (Vault/AWS Secrets)
Image Vulnerability Scanning

Observability

Structured JSON Logging
Prometheus Metrics Exposed
Distributed Tracing (OpenTelemetry)
Centralized Log Aggregation
Alerting Rules Defined

Operations

Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA)
Pod Disruption Budgets (PDB)
Resource Requests/Limits Set
CI/CD Pipeline Integration
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)