Alek's Blog

Blog Posts

These my Blog Posts are mainly to have some all day commands available 🫢.

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K8s & OpenShift: Day-2 Operations & GitOps

GitOps with Argo CD and Flux, observability, FinOps controls, and cluster upgrade strategies — keeping a Kubernetes cluster healthy after launch. Part 6 of 7.

K8s & OpenShift: Day-2 Operations & GitOps
Diagram: Kubernetes CPU and memory zones from request to limit, showing CFS throttling for CPU and OOM kill for memory

K8s & OpenShift: Resource Management

How Kubernetes enforces CPU and memory boundaries: requests vs limits, QoS classes, cgroup v2, and what happens when a container hits its limit. Part 3 of 7.

K8s & OpenShift: Resource Management
Flowchart: Kubernetes pod termination sequence from scale-down or node drain through preStop hook and SIGTERM to SIGKILL

K8s & OpenShift: Scaling & Resilience

HPA, VPA, cluster autoscaler, pod disruption budgets, and topology spread — how to scale Kubernetes workloads and keep them available under load. Part 4 of 7.

K8s & OpenShift: Scaling & Resilience
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K8s & OpenShift: Security

RBAC, Pod Security Admission, NetworkPolicy, and supply-chain controls — the security practices every Kubernetes production workload needs. Part 5 of 7.

K8s & OpenShift: Security
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K8s & OpenShift: Building Workloads Right

Container image hygiene, health probes, graceful shutdown, and securityContext — what every workload running in Kubernetes has to get right. Part 2 of 7.

K8s & OpenShift: Building Workloads Right
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The Kubernetes & OpenShift Best Practices Guide (2026 Edition)

A seven-part field guide to running Kubernetes and OpenShift in production in 2026 — workloads, resources, scaling, security, Day-2 operations, and compliance.

The Kubernetes & OpenShift Best Practices Guide (2026 Edition)