Thanks for those links. I'll definitely watch the first one to get an idea for organising the later posts.
And yeah, pods are a great idea. I came across mtail [0], an awk-like language for tailing logs and turning them into metrics. Putting that in a pod with uninstrumented serving components will be fun!
I like the idea of a pod; some containers should run on the same machine and be "more connected" than others.
Here's a couple of useful videos I've found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwBdNXt6wO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA8XNVPZM2w