The Positive Side of Pending Pods: A Toolkit for App Lifecycle

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Shows a concrete toolkit: creates a kind cluster, installs Captain lifecycle toolkit via Helm, and wires Prometheus/Grafana, Jaeger and DORA metrics to capture pre/post signals. Implements pre-deploy checks that block bad deployments, adds a post-deployment webhook check implemented as Captain tasks and a Kubernetes Job, then upgrades v0.0.1→v0.0.2 and observes successful evaluations (pre and post both report succeeded, job 1/1). Demonstrates live debugging of pending pods caused by resource requests, node constraints and image pull delays.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:47Pending Pods in Kubernetes
3. 4:38Common causes
4. 10:19Benefits for developers
5. 12:29Predictable scaling
6. 13:55Observability with Pending Pods
7. 14:59Early problem detection
8. 16:47Captain Lifecycle Toolkit
9. 18:55Demo setup and install
10. 27:31Live demo and checks
11. 39:03Q&A

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