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Cluster manifests
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
CAREER PROJECT · Advanced · 3 weekends
Kubernetes Production Lab
Operate a small app on Kubernetes with probes, autoscaling, config, secrets and observability.
KubernetesContainersAutoscalingSecretsMonitoring
DEFINITION OF DONE
Leave artifacts a reviewer can inspect.
02
Deployment demo
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
03
Health probes
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
04
Dashboard
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
05
Runbook
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Deployed and operated a Kubernetes workload with autoscaling, health probes, configuration and observability.
Use this as a starting structure, then replace it with your real implementation details, metrics and constraints. Do not claim outcomes you did not measure.
STRETCH GOALS
Go deeper if the core is already solid.
GitOps
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
Network policies
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
Canary deploy
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.