About GoLiveApp

GoLiveApp is a technical blog for DevOps engineers and SREs who run production systems on Kubernetes. Every guide here is written to solve a specific operational problem — not to introduce concepts.

What we publish

Production Kubernetes is full of gaps between "the docs say it works" and "it works at 3am under load with real traffic." GoLiveApp covers those gaps: the YAML settings most teams skip, the failure modes that only show up at scale, and the operational patterns that separate stable systems from ones that page you on weekends.

Topics

• Kubernetes deployments — rolling updates, zero-downtime configuration, probes, graceful shutdown
• Cluster resilience — Pod Disruption Budgets, topology spread, node affinity, taints and tolerations
• AWS EKS operations — cluster upgrades, rollbacks, managed node groups, Fargate, Auto Mode
• Autoscaling — HPA, Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter, cost-aware scaling
• SRE practices — SLOs, error budgets, on-call runbooks, incident response
• Cost optimization — Spot instances, resource right-sizing, namespace quotas
• Observability — metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards

Who this is for

Engineers who are already running Kubernetes and want to run it better. These guides assume familiarity with Kubernetes basics — pods, deployments, services. They don't explain what a container is.

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Contact

Questions, corrections, or topic suggestions: [email protected]