Shashank Pai
Shashank is a Senior SRE at InfraCloud, bringing extensive experience in managing and scaling cloud-native applications. His expertise lies in Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and infrastructure as code. He is passionate about continuous learning and contributing to the DevOps community, often speaking at conferences and writing technical blogs.
Infracloud Technologies (An Improving Company)
Senior SRE
Session
Kubernetes has a reputation for being complex, but the failures that bring real production clusters down are often shockingly simple and uncomfortably familiar. This session is a collection of real-world “Kubernetes confessions” gathered from years of helping teams troubleshoot outages: the app that appeared healthy but was invisible to monitoring, the cluster that couldn’t drain a node for half a day, the container that quietly slipped out of its sandbox, and the on-prem registry so slow it brought an entire release pipeline to a standstill.
Each story uncovers the small decisions and overlooked fundamentals that led to major incidents and, more importantly, the lessons each failure teaches us about how Kubernetes really behaves in production. If you’ve ever wondered how something tiny in your YAML, probes, drains, or privilege settings turned into something huge, this talk offers clarity, practical insights, and the playbook needed to avoid these mistakes in your own environment.