Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services. The system has a large and rapidly growing following. Unfortunately, as with any application tool, users can make mistakes that quickly negate its benefits.

“There are many common mistakes,” says Mike Loukides, vice president of emerging tech content at IT learning services provider O’Reilly Media. They fall into a few classes: misunderstanding how to use pods effectively, using Kubernetes in a way that makes observability difficult or impossible, getting security wrong, and using Kubernetes without automating the…