Kubernetes operations
How ready is your cluster for the next incident?
Twelve questions on updates, capacity, security, backups, monitoring and ownership. At the end you see where your cluster is solid and which three risks to address first.
- Free
- No sign-up
- about 5 minutes
- Inputs stay in your browser
What you get
- 12 questions across six areas
- Readiness score from 0 to 100
- Results per area
- Three prioritised risks with a first step
- Shareable result link
Tip: answer with keys 1 to 4
Readiness score based on your answers
Your three most important issues
Self-assessment, not an audit. Your answers stay in your browser.
Methodology
How the result is calculated
The questions follow the areas assessed in the Kubernetes Health Audit. Each answer scores 0 to 3 points.
- Six areas
- Versions and updates, capacity and cost, security and access, backup and recovery, monitoring and alerting, and operations and ownership. Each area has two questions.
- Points
- The best answer scores 3 points, the weakest 0. The score per area is the share of the 6 available points; the overall score is the average across all areas.
- Rating
- 80 and above is solid, 60 and above stable with gaps, 40 and above risky, below that critical. If one area is below 50, the rating is at most risky; below 67, at most stable with gaps.
- Prioritised risks
- Every answer below 3 points creates a finding. Findings are ranked by missing points, weighted by area: recovery and security weigh more than capacity because failures there are harder to fix.
Next step
What a self-check cannot see
In the Kubernetes Health Audit, I review your cluster directly and turn the findings into a prioritised 30/90-day plan.
Questions about this tool
Does the check replace an audit?
No. It shows where you stand based on your own assessment. An audit reviews configuration, data and processes directly and often finds risks nobody notices day to day.
Does the check apply to EKS, AKS or GKE?
Yes. The questions are about operations, not the provider. With managed services, only responsibility for updating the control plane moves; workloads, access and backups are still yours.
Why does the Kubernetes version matter so much?
The Kubernetes project only maintains the three most recent minor releases. After that there are no security fixes, and managed providers sometimes charge considerably more for older versions in extended support.
Are my answers stored?
The calculation runs in your browser. The latest result summary and result link are temporarily stored in this tab for the booking window. If you share them by e-mail, you decide whether to send the message.
