Taking your Kubernetes microservices from development to production requires careful planning and configuration. This checklist outlines the essential steps to ensure a smooth and successful go-live process, promoting stability, scalability, and high availability for your applications.

1. Kubernetes go-live
checklist for your
microservices
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2. Speaker Intro
Solutions Architect at Devtron with 12+ years of
experience in Tech Industry. Also an active
contributor and maintainer of Devtron project on
Github.
Twitter: @_prakarsh
Github: github.com/prakarsh-dt
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/prakarsh
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3. Contents
- What is Kubernetes?
- Kubernetes Architecture
- Microservice Checklist
- Q&A
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4. What is Kubernetes?
- Container orchestration system
- Deploy - Autoscale - Manage
- Most popular container orchestration system
- Production ready
- Open Source and great community support.
- Managed K8s services provided by all popular
cloud providers
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5. Microservices Checklist
- Know per pod capacity
- Configure Resources Limits and Requests
- Configure Autoscaling
- Ensure High availability
- Configure Probes
- Configure policies to form guardrails
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6. Know per pod capacity
● Load Test with resources/configs you
intend to allocate in production
● Simulate production-like traffic
● Leverage autoscaling while keeping
smaller replicas
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7. Configure Resources Limits and Requests
resources:
memory:
limits: 3.5Gi
requests: 3Gi
cpu:
limits: 1
requests: 1
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● Never deploy without Resources
● Minimize the gap between limits and
requests
● Use the ratio between cpu:memory to
decide nodegroup

8. Configure Autoscaling
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● Always configure HPA for stateless
microservices
● Scale based on relevant metrics
(Beyond cpu and memory)
● Ensure Infra is also auto scalable

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10. Ensure High availability
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● Always run multiple replicas
● Spread replicas across different AZ
● Enable Pod disruption budget
● Ensure your Infra is always multi AZ

11. Configure Probes
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● Configure probes
● Configure meaningful probes
● K8s depends heavily on probes for self
healing, autoscaling and Load balancing

12. Configure policies to form Guardrails
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● Best practices
● Operational Constraints
● Security constraints
● External Regulations

13. Configure policies - Tools
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● Kyverno
● Open policy agent - Gatekeeper
● Kubernetes Validating Admission
policies

14. Application Monitoring and Alerts setup
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● Resource monitoring
● http status monitoring
● Logs ingestion and monitoring
● Advanced application
performance monitoring

15. Demo
●Autoscaling
●Health Probes

16. Questions ?

17. About Devtron Project
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Devtron is Kubernetes-native Devops and
developer productivity platform.
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Discord: https://discord.devtron.ai
Some Enterprises using Devtron for Kubernetes
Deployments
● Delhivery
● Bharatpe
● Tata 1MG
● IndiaMart
● Ather Energy
● Xoxodays
● OTPLess
● Spinny

18. Thank you!
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