Killing the 429: Rate-Limit Proofing Your Kubernetes Workflows with Varnish Orca

In a perfect world, our Kubernetes clusters would be entirely self-contained. In reality, every cluster is tethered to the public internet by a thousand invisible threads of container registries, package managers, and API endpoints. As Adrian Herrera recently noted , modern software is assembled, not written, which means our entire supply chain is only as strong as its weakest external link.