Openshift Quarterly Check-In

A proper check-in cuts through noise. Review deployment pipelines. Audit cluster resource usage. Measure uptime against SLAs. Track build times and image sizes. Validate security patches and container base images. Every metric tells you if your platform is healthy or in decline.

The process should be structured. Start with core cluster health: nodes, pods, and networking. Look for errors in logs. Identify workloads that consume excessive CPU, RAM, or disk. Compare current usage to last quarter’s thresholds. Tighten configurations where drift has set in.

Next, inspect CI/CD workflows connected to OpenShift. Ensure build configs are efficient. Update dependencies. Remove deprecated APIs before they lock you into failure. Monitor integration points with external systems — registries, Git repos, monitoring stacks. Failures here cascade fast.

Security reviews deserve their own block in the check-in. Run vulnerability scans. Rotate secrets and tokens. Verify role-based access control (RBAC) rules. Require TLS across endpoints. Set alerts for unauthorized network traffic.

The last step is the human side: documentation and communication. Align engineering and operations teams on changes. Publish clear runbooks. Record incident response lessons learned this quarter so they are not repeated the next.

Openshift Quarterly Check-In is not just a ritual. It’s a safeguard against entropy. Done right, it keeps systems fast, secure, and predictable until the next review.

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