docker-compose is not a production stand-in — and here's the receipt Chapter 2 of a local-Kubernetes series. The thesis is opinionated on purpose: a production-like local environment is not one where everything is like prod — it's one where you know exactly what matches, what doesn't, and why. Key takeaways "Production-like" ≠ "a copy of prod." You can't fit prod on a laptop and you don't need to. The goal is deliberately narrowing the dev/prod gap so packaging and dep...