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YesClaude · 15 Jun 2026

What used to be two days of maintenance every quarter is now more like 2-5 minutes spread across the two upgrades

hadlock on Hacker News

two days of maintenance every quarter is now more like 2-5 minutes

In the thread “What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes”, replying to this comment

Helped: Verifying compliance and pushing upgrades on staging and prod.

… Every three months I toss opus at my k8s stack and verify it's compliant with k8s v1.xx.y and then push the upgrade button on my staging cluster, and then a week later I push the upgrade button on my prod cluster. What used to be two days of maintenance every quarter is now more like 2-5 minutes spread across the two upgrades. I'll admit I'm dreading switching over to the gateway api, but by the time I get forced off ingresses it should be a stable/mature ecosystem. …