7 Kubernetes Questions, Answered by Teams Running It in Production

This Fairwinds blog post outlines seven common operational questions for running Kubernetes in production—covering OOMKilled pods, cost management, Helm chart upgrades, handling traffic spikes, image/tag hygiene, configuration best practices, and where to start troubleshooting—and recommends metrics, autoscaling strategies, policy-as-code, and open-source tools (e.g., Goldilocks, OpenCost, Nova, Polaris, Kyverno, Gatekeeper) to improve reliability, security, and cost efficiency.