Software Engineering Daily · Thursday, August 13, 2026
Anurag Goal detailed the challenges of managing Kubernetes at scale, noting that while simple applications run fine, larger, growing businesses require extensive configuration for inter-application communication, CI/CD, environment protection, and observability. He highlighted that diagnosing issues often requires deep understanding of Kubernetes internals.
“But as you start to become bigger, if your business is growing, you start needing more configuration around which applications can talk to each other.”
“You start needing the notion of well, the CI CD needs to work in a certain way, you need to have certain environments be protected, you need some services to not be available to the internet, you need observability across all of this and then you need to be aware of when something goes down, you need to get alerted and then you have to go solve that problem yourself because you have to then understand well, you stubbed it up on Kubernetes and you need to understand sometimes exactly how Kubernetes works under the hood to know well, this network policy change is what caused this DNS error and with Kubernetes you have to manage all of these things yourself.”