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Kubernetes Deployment: Best Practices & Production Checklist
Production-ready Kubernetes deployment guide. Security hardening, monitoring, scaling, and cost optimization strategies.
- PUBLISHED
- September 18, 2025
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- 1 MIN
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- ONE FREQUENCY
Deploy Kubernetes successfully with this production-ready checklist.
Security Hardening
- RBAC configuration
- Network policies
- Pod security policies
- Secrets management (Vault/Sealed Secrets)
- Image scanning
Monitoring & Observability
- Prometheus + Grafana
- Log aggregation (ELK/Loki)
- Distributed tracing (Jaeger)
- Service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
Scaling Strategies
- HPA/VPA configuration
- Cluster autoscaling
- Node affinity rules
- Resource quotas
Cost Optimization
- Spot instances
- Right-sizing
- Namespace quotas
- Idle resource cleanup
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