8 quick questions on cost, platform, reliability and delivery. You see your level right away and can get the full report by email. Takes about 2 minutes.

1.Do you know how much each team or product spends on the cluster?

We only see the total cloud billWe have estimates, no per-team dataWe have cost per namespace or tag, reviewed now and thenCost per team and product, reviewed regularly with a clear owner

2.How do you use Spot, Savings Plans and ARM (Graviton) instances?

Everything is On-DemandWe buy some discounts, with no clear strategySpot for part of the workloads or well-sized Savings PlansWe combine Spot, Savings Plans and ARM, with a tested fallback

3.How do the cluster nodes scale?

Manually or with fixed node groupsCluster Autoscaler with a few node groupsKarpenter (or similar) with a basic NodePoolKarpenter with several NodePools, consolidation and tuned disruption budgets

4.Do workloads have CPU and memory requests and limits set?

Mostly notSet once, never reviewedWe review them against metrics now and thenWe review continuously (VPA, Goldilocks or similar) with a cluster policy

5.How do you detect a problem in production?

A customer or another team tells usWe have dashboards, but only look when something breaksAlerts on the main services, with on-callSLOs, alerts tied to user impact and traces to investigate

6.What happens after an incident?

We fix it and move onWe talk about it informallyWe write a postmortem for serious incidentsBlameless postmortem, tracked actions and updated runbooks

7.What does deploying to production look like?

Manual, with commands or a docCI/CD pipeline, manual approval at the endAutomated pipeline with tests and a known rollbackGitOps (Argo CD or Flux), progressive rollout and automatic rollback

8.How do you upgrade Kubernetes and its add-ons?

Only when the version loses support, in a rushWe upgrade occasionally, with no playbookWe have a checklist and test in staging firstA planned routine with a checklist, bake period and rehearsed rollback

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