Kubernetes Production Capstone: Real-World Access, Security, and Incident Scenarios

<p>The capstone of this Kubernetes series: take the frontend, user-service, and app-service stack that's been built up across earlier projects and deploy it as one coherent production system on EKS — TLS, resource guardrails, PodDisruptionBudgets, NetworkPolicy, and Prometheus/Grafana observability wired together for the first time. From there, work through the access requests, operational drills, and incident scenarios a real platform engineer handles: IAM roles and EKS access entries, Pod Identity for least-privilege S3 access, ECR image-pull troubleshooting, secret rotation, rollback from a bad deploy, HPA autoscaling under load, safe node draining, and building a multi-tenant boundary for a second team sharing the cluster.</p>

Tools: kubernetes, eks, iam, rbac, incident response