Green Helm Run Isn't a Healthy Release: 45-Min K8s Checks Cut to 2
A payments SRE team automated Kubernetes release validation in CI/CD, checking pod readiness, crash/failure states, and a 60-second stability window before marking releases healthy. The win wasn't just the 45-to-2-minute speedup: it killed manual namespace-by-namespace checks and made release confidence consistent instead of reliant on whoever was on call.