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Go Apps on Kubernetes
Production Best Practices
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-04-19
Go services often fail in production for boring reasons: weak probe semantics, missing timeout budgets, unsafe retries, noisy telemetry, and rollout settings that look fine until traffic spikes.
Go Apps on Kubernetes is a practical pocketbook for engineers who ship and run Go microservices on K8s. It gives you concise, production-focused guidance you can apply immediately: health/readiness contracts, graceful shutdown and draining, retry/backoff patterns, observability defaults (metrics, logs, traces), security hardening baselines, and deployment/autoscaling templates.
No theory dump, no platform-admin detours. Just reusable patterns and incident-oriented checklists to help your services start cleanly, degrade predictably, and recover fast.
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Provide a practical production baseline for building and operating Go services on Kubernetes.
This pocketbook is for
- Go backend engineers shipping containerized APIs/services.
- Platform/SRE teams defining shared production guardrails.
- Tech leads standardizing reliability and operability across services.
What you get
- Essential defaults for probes, shutdown, timeouts, retries, and runtime limits.
- Reusable snippets for observability, deployment safety, and incident triage.
- Checklists to validate readiness before production rollout.
Scope
- Kubernetes-ready application behavior and service runtime practices.
- Day-1 and Day-2 operational reliability for HTTP-centric microservices.
Out of scope
- Deep Kubernetes platform administration (cluster provisioning/CNI/storage internals).
- Service-specific business logic and domain-level architecture choices.
How to use it
- Apply the baseline templates first.
- Adapt values to your SLOs, traffic profile, and dependency behavior.
- Keep changes explicit, measured, and testable under load/failure.
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Luca Sepe
Luca Sepe is a platform architect and software engineer focused on Kubernetes APIs, controllers, control planes, and Go infrastructure software.
He has worked in software engineering since 1999 across backend systems, cloud integrations, observability, media platforms, infrastructure automation, and Kubernetes native products. His books turn that experience into practical guides for engineers who need to understand not only how a mechanism works, but also its contracts, failure modes, and operational tradeoffs.
Luca also provides fixed-scope, primarily asynchronous architecture reviews for platform teams. Each review covers one bounded component or design decision and ends with a written assessment, prioritized next actions, and a structured handover.
- Professional profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasepe
- Code: https://github.com/lucasepe
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