Platform-Engineering

A best-effort sync loop isn't enough to keep an external system in lockstep with Kubernetes. This post uses service discovery to show how readiness gates and finalizers make an external system a participant in the pod lifecycle, so registration gates readiness and cleanup gates deletion.

Kubernetes rollouts are easier to reason about when you model progress separately from success. This post explains why convergence alone is not enough for CI/CD orchestration, how rollout status can be modeled with conditions, and why progress budgets should usually be owned by the platform.