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Most Incidents Are Not Exotic

Cheap guardrails catch boring production failures before they become expensive incidents.

Production idea

Policy, admission control, release guardrails, scorecards, and reliability defaults.

Command set
kubectl diffkubectl auth can-ikubectl apply --server-side --dry-run=server
Monday morning
  • Block BestEffort pods in production namespaces.
  • Require probes on request-serving workloads.
  • Require runbook links on paging alerts.
  • Track guardrail exceptions with owners.