By Net Innovix · Published on 2026-04-22 · Cloud & DevOps
The runbook our DevOps team actually follows when moving a live workload onto Kubernetes, readiness probes through to rollback drills.
Migrating a live production workload to Kubernetes without downtime is less about YAML and more about discipline. This is the checklist our team runs on every migration: dual-write or shadow-traffic validation, readiness and liveness probes tuned to real startup behavior (not defaults), horizontal pod autoscaling tested against historical traffic spikes, and a rehearsed rollback path that’s actually been executed in staging, not just documented.
We also cover the most common failure mode we see — teams that treat the migration as a one-way door and skip the rollback drill, then panic when something goes wrong at 2am.