SLOs for Kubernetes Services: Alerting on What Actually Matters
Stop paging on CPU and start paging on burn rate. A practical guide to SLOs, error budgets, and multi-window alerts for Kubernetes services.
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4 posts about sre in the conndeck blog — field notes on local-first Kubernetes operations, GitOps, and production debugging.
Upgrading Kubernetes Without Downtime or Drama
Kubernetes upgrades don't have to be scary. Version skew rules, drain and PDB discipline, deprecation hunting, and how managed vs self-managed changes the job.
Read the postManaging a Fleet of Clusters Without Losing Track of Reality
From 2 clusters to 20: kubeconfig hygiene, fleet-wide visibility, and GitOps per cluster. The patterns that keep multi-cluster from becoming multi-chaos.
Read the postInside the Kubernetes Scheduler: Why Your Pods Land Where They Do
A deep dive into kube-scheduler internals: filtering vs scoring, topology spread math, PriorityClass preemption, scheduler profiles, and why the descheduler exists.
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