Running Kubernetes, mostly on AKS, in production. Posts cover hardening and reliability checklists, observability with managed Prometheus and Grafana, node pool right-sizing and autoscaling for cost, and ingress controller comparisons. You will also find policy enforcement with OPA Gatekeeper and Kyverno, Pod Disruption Budgets that prevent downtime during node drains and upgrades, and GitOps deployment with Flux or Argo CD. The articles assume you already have a cluster and need to make it safer, cheaper or easier to operate, so they lead with the decision and then show the manifests.
AKS monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana made practical: enable managed scraping, build alert rules, and deploy production dashboards in under an hour.
Read article →OPA Gatekeeper vs Kyverno compared: Rego vs YAML authoring, mutation, policy testing, webhook latency, Azure Policy for AKS, and a decision framework.
Read article →How Pod Disruption Budgets really work: minAvailable vs maxUnavailable, percentage rounding, blocked AKS drains, eviction API behaviour, and monitoring.
Read article →AKS cost optimization that holds: right-size node pools from real usage, tune the cluster autoscaler, split system and user pools, and use spot safely.
Read article →AKS production hardening done right: 2026 checklist covering RBAC, network policy, node security, and reliability patterns to protect live clusters.
Read article →Kubernetes ingress controller comparison of NGINX, Traefik and Azure Application Gateway: TLS, WAF, scaling, cost and when to pick each on AKS.
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