Kubernetes is easy to demo and hard to run well. The articles in this collection are about the second part — operating clusters for real workloads where security, reliability and cost all matter at once. They draw on my work running services on Amazon EKS and Docker, and on the mistakes I made before things clicked.

You will find practical guides on injecting secrets securely, getting more out of sidecar containers, wiring workloads to AWS services with Pod Identity, and making sense of what your cluster is actually doing. Wherever possible I include a working demo, because Kubernetes concepts only stick once you have run them yourself and watched them break.

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