Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes best practices for deployments, health checks, resource management, security, and production-ready workloads.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Kubernetes: Always set resource requests/limits. Use liveness, readiness, AND startup probes. Run as non-root with securityContext. Use NetworkPolicies for isolation. ConfigMaps for config, Secrets for sensitive data. PodDisruptionBudget for HA. HPA for scaling.
Use When
- Deploying applications to Kubernetes
- Configuring Kubernetes workloads
- Setting up production Kubernetes clusters
- Implementing Kubernetes security
Skip When
- Simple container deployments without orchestration
- Serverless platforms
Kubernetes Best Practices
Kubernetes best practices for deployments, health checks, resource management, security, and production-ready workloads.