Explore a comprehensive conference talk on preparing containerized applications for secure and scalable production deployment using Kubernetes. Dive into crucial aspects of production readiness, including privacy regulations compliance, multi-user access management, authentication and authorization platform integration, Mutual TLS implementation, certificate and password management, CICD pipeline optimization, and application availability and scalability. Learn from IBM experts Shikha Srivastava and Erica Brown as they guide you through the entire process of delivering production-ready code, covering topics such as failover strategies, agile development practices, microservices architecture, Kubernetes deployments, application stability, security policies, and cluster management. Gain insights into best practices, Docker file optimization, secrets management, and the implementation of shared persistent storage for robust applications.