Stress-test judgement

Kubernetes & AKS Academy: Architecture scenarios

Work through ambiguous production situations where several answers may appear reasonable.

Scenario 01

Kubernetes Architecture: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Kubernetes Architecture. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 02

Pods: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Pods. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 03

ReplicaSets: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving ReplicaSets. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 04

Deployments: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Deployments. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 05

DaemonSets: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving DaemonSets. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 06

StatefulSets: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving StatefulSets. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 07

Services: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Services. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.

Scenario 08

Ingress: production change under pressure

A business-critical service requires a change involving Ingress. Documentation is incomplete, the maintenance window is limited and stakeholders expect no disruption.

Your response must cover

Define the minimum safe evidence, identify blast radius, select validation gates, state abort criteria and prepare a tested recovery path.