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Phase 2
Workloads, Health & Configuration
Running applications and updating them without dropping requests — including the probes that decide whether traffic reaches you at all.
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Deployments, Rollouts and the Other Workload Types
How a Deployment updates without downtime, what maxSurge and maxUnavailable really control, and the workload types most tutorials skip.
kubernetesdeploymentsreplicasets
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Probes: Liveness, Readiness and Startup
Three probes, three different jobs. Why a liveness probe that checks the database can take down your whole fleet, and what startup probes actually fix.
kubernetesprobesliveness
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ConfigMaps and Secrets: Why Your Config Change Did Nothing
Env vars never update in a running pod. Secrets are encoded, not encrypted. Two facts that explain most Kubernetes configuration confusion.
kubernetesconfigmapssecrets