The widespread adoption of Kubernetes and microservices has opened the floodgates of innovation by allowing developers to deploy continuously on epic scales and at an accelerated pace. However, moving fast often involves breaking things, and when it comes to the intricate and distributed architecture of modern K8s-based systems it’s much harder to put all the pieces back together while still moving forward.

The secret to reliable cloud-native software lies in the foundations. That’s why it is so important to invest in planning your infrastructure before you build it and to implement the right tools for prevention, mitigation, and troubleshooting.