In our years of experience with Kubernetes internally and with hundreds of customers, we’ve seen several mistakes happen over and over again. Don’t beat yourself up about it – we’ve all been there and done that! But there’s no reason to keep making mistakes. Here are the 16 K8s worst practices that will cause you pain down the line.

1. Using In-Tree Storage Drivers 

This one’s pretty simple: in-tree disk and file drivers aren’t going to be supported starting with Kubernetes v1.26 anymore.