Auditing Kubernetes Manifests With AI: A Practical Workflow

A senior K8s engineer I work with audits manifests faster than I read them. He's seen so many patterns that "missing readinessProbe on a Deployment that takes 45 seconds to start" jumps off the page. Most of us don't have that pattern library memorized — and increasingly, we don't need to. AI assistants have read more Kubernetes manifests than any human ever will. The catch: a generic "review this YAML" prompt produces generic noise. You need to direct the model toward the categories of issues...