Which fields in a Kubernetes manifest decide how safe and stable a workload is, what each one changes, and what to write instead of the risky default.
A Kubernetes manifest is safe to apply when the pod cannot gain more power on the node than it needs, when the image you run is the image you reviewed, when memory and CPU have a ceiling, and when the cluster can tell whether the container is alive and ready for traffic. Six groups of fields decide most of that: the securityContext, host access, image references, resource requests and limits, probes, and where secrets come from. None of them is exotic. They are the defaults you leave in place when a manifest is copied from a tutorial, and each one has a small, boring replacement.
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