SRE Myths

This section explores common Kubernetes beliefs within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) domain. It examines where platform assumptions diverge from real-world reliability, operations, and user impact.

📄️ Myth: Kubernetes Guarantees Application Self-Healing

During an on-call incident, alerts showed pods continuously restarting, nodes were healthy, and Kubernetes reported everything as “Running.”

📄️ Myth: Pod Disruption Budgets(PDB) Guarantee Availability

A production API was running with three replicas and a PodDisruptionBudget configured with minAvailable: 2.

Authored and Debunked By

Rajesh DeshpandeKubernetes Mythologist

Cloud-Native Platform Architect

Reviewed and Verified By

Snehal JoshiKubernetes Mythicist

Cloud-Native Architect (DevOps)