One year using Kubernetes in production

Nice article!

Load balancing with native kubernetes services is pretty easy with nodeport. Simply don't specify a nodeport and a free one will be provisioned that dosen't conflict. Then just put an elb or whatever in front of the nodes and update it with the api.

Also kubernetes supports blue-green with the deployment object. I think it's a mistake to try and roll your own and you lose a bunch of powerful native features.