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Kubernetes best practices: security, workloads, networking, config, operations, GitOps. Use when writing or reviewing K8s manifests and configurations.
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| name | kubernetes |
| description | Kubernetes best practices: security, workloads, networking, config, operations, GitOps. Use when writing or reviewing K8s manifests and configurations. |
runAsNonRoot: true, runAsUser (non-zero) in securityContextreadOnlyRootFilesystem: true. Mount writable volumes explicitlyallowPrivilegeEscalation: falsecapabilities: {drop: [ALL], add: [NET_BIND_SERVICE]}hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC without explicit system-level justificationrestricted profile for all application workloads. baseline minimum for system workloadsautomountServiceAccountToken: false on pods that don't call the API serverServiceAccount per workload. No default SA with cluster-level rolesRole/RoleBinding over ClusterRole/ClusterRoleBinding unless cluster-scope is requiredkubectl auth can-i --list and rakkess or rbac-toolverbs: ["*"] or resources: ["*"] in production rolesSecret objects are base64 only — require etcd encryption at restCiliumNetworkPolicy for L7 rules (HTTP, gRPC path/method filtering) where neededDeployment for stateless. StatefulSet for stateful with stable identity. DaemonSet for node-level agentsrequests and limits on every container. No unbounded CPU or memorylimits cause throttling — set conservatively or omit and rely on namespace LimitRange. Memory limits cause OOMKill — set with headroomminReplicas ≥ 2 for production. Single-replica = not HAterminationGracePeriodSeconds set to cover max request duration + drain time. Default 30s is often too shortpreStop: exec: sleep 5 (or equivalent) to allow load balancer to drain before SIGTERMPodDisruptionBudget on all production workloads. minAvailable > 0topologySpreadConstraints or podAntiAffinity to spread replicas across nodes and zonesHorizontalPodAutoscaler on CPU/memory or custom metrics for stateless workloadsVerticalPodAutoscaler in recommendation mode to right-size requests over timelatest tag in manifests. Pin to digest or immutable tagimagePullPolicy: Always for mutable tags. imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent for digest-pinned imagesConfigMap for non-sensitive config. External secrets (not raw K8s Secret) for sensitive dataResourceQuota and LimitRange per namespaceapp.kubernetes.io/name, app.kubernetes.io/version, app.kubernetes.io/component, env, teamIngresscert-manager for certificate lifecycle (Let's Encrypt or internal CA)ClusterIP. External: LoadBalancer or ingress only. Never NodePort in productionlatest, require probes, restrict privilegeskubectl apply to productionkubectl diff before any manual apply. Never apply blindlykubectl rollout for deploys. maxUnavailable: 0, maxSurge: 1 for zero-downtimeDocker best practices: image security, build efficiency, runtime hardening, Compose, local tooling (Colima, OrbStack). Use when writing or reviewing Dockerfiles and Compose files.
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