Compute — Kubernetes

Kubernetes: orchestrate many containerized services — scheduling, rollout, service discovery, when ops capacity and service count make it earned.

Fit

• Multiple services, independent scale, real platform team (or strong desire + time to learn)
• You already have Docker discipline per unit

Skip when

• Single app / single site — this is usually Path 01 smoke. Run kiss.
• No one owns the cluster — prefer Clouds managed runtimes or Docker on Fly/Cloud Run/ECS

Starter DAG

flowchart TD
  A[kiss: is k8s earned?] --> B[Deploy units + resource boundaries]
  B --> C[Images from Docker path]
  C --> D[Manifests/Helm/Kustomize - least mechanism]
  D --> E[CI: affected charts + kubeconform/policy]
  E --> F[ESC for cluster credentials - short-lived]
  F --> G[stage then prod namespaces]
  G --> H[observe-it: SLOs, rollouts, events]

Skills

kiss · repos architecture · repos ci · repos secrets · stage-it · ship-it · observe-it · agents slap if GitOps agents thrash · tidy-up

Watchouts

• Cluster sprawl without CODEOWNERS
• Long-lived kubeconfigs in GitHub Secrets
• Deploying the world on every package bump