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K8

Kubernetes Pod & Deployment Design

Probes, requests/limits, and scaling constraints

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Language / Topic
kubernetesKubernetes
Category
Infrastructure

Rules

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- Explicitly define memory and CPU `requests` and `limits` to prevent pods from starving the node.
- Define distinct liveness and readiness probes rather than relying entirely on application crashes.
- Always declare resource `requests` (for node scheduling) and `limits` (for throttling) for CPU and Memory in Kubernetes Deployments.
- Implement HTTP Readiness Probes (to accept traffic) apart from Liveness Probes (to restart deadlocked apps).
- Keep Pod replicas ≥ 2 in Production to allow Rolling Updates without dropping zero-downtime traffic.