Kubernetes Deployment: Best Practices & Production Checklist

9/18/2025

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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