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Kubernetes Deployment: Best Practices & Production Checklist

Production-ready Kubernetes deployment guide. Security hardening, monitoring, scaling, and cost optimization strategies.

September 18, 2025
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By One Frequency Consulting

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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