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kubectl apply came back clean. Service created. Deployment rolled out. Pods running. And every request returns 503. The thing that took me a while to accept about Kubernetes is that a manifest being valid says almost nothing about whether it c…

Most teams test on one shared staging environment, and most teams quietly accept the queue, the drift, and the "it works on staging" arguments that come with it. The cost is measurable. One developer-productivity study found th…

Ask a team running Kubernetes what is actually deployed in their production cluster right now, and most cannot tell you with certainty. The manifests in the repository are a close guess, not a guarantee, because the last few changes went out…