Managed or custom deploy? What is the size of the cluster and team that will be using it? Kubernetes is a hell of a lot configurable, so your environment matte

Managed or custom deploy? What is the size of the cluster and team that will be using it? Kubernetes is a hell of a lot configurable, so your environment matters a lot on the must and nice to have. If not managed, make sure you go through all components flags and configure things like reserved resources, forbid hostpath usage, pod security policies (do not allow root), etc Also, avoid service meshes until you fully understand how to use “vanilla” Kubernetes, don’t add this complexity from day 1 because debugging cluster issues can get a lot harder.