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Kubernetes Product Plan

Container orchestration platform with pods, services, deployments, auto-scaling, and self-healing.

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Pod management

Deployments and ReplicaSets

Services and Ingress

ConfigMaps and Secrets

Horizontal pod autoscaling

Persistent volumes

Namespaces

RBAC

Helm charts

Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)

As a DevOps engineer, I can deploy containers at scale

As a team, I can manage services with declarative YAML

As an SRE, I can auto-scale based on CPU/memory

As a developer, I can manage configs and secrets safely

As a platform engineer, I can extend K8s with CRDs

GoetcdgRPCContainerdCoreDNSPrometheusHelmTerraformREST API

Category	Requirement	Target
Performance	Pod scheduling	< 5s from request to running container
Scalability	Cluster	5000+ nodes per cluster, 150K+ pods
Availability	Control plane	99.99% for managed K8s (EKS/GKE/AKS)
Security	Workloads	RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, secrets encryption

MVPContainer Orchestration

PodsDeploymentsServicesConfigMapsNamespaces

v1.0Production Ready

HPA (autoscaling)IngressPVsRBACHelmStatefulSets

v2.0Platform

CRDs + operatorsService mesh (Istio)Gateway APIKustomizeGitOps (ArgoCD)

Adoption: > 90% of organizations using containers

CNCF certified distributions: > 100

GitHub contributors: > 3K active

Managed K8s growth: > 40% YoY (EKS/GKE/AKS)

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Code hosting and collaboration platform with repos, pull requests, CI/CD, issues, and code review.

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