The text explores anti-patterns in container and Kubernetes environments, emphasizing the pitfalls and solutions associated with hardcoding configurations, handling dependencies, and setting resource limits. It highlights the use of ConfigMaps in Kubernetes to decouple configuration from applications, allowing for dynamic updates without rebuilding images. The importance of managing dependencies through patterns such as retries and resource inputs and outputs is discussed, with Pulumi's infrastructure as code solution facilitating this by understanding resource dependencies. The text also advises against deploying naked Pods and mixing production with non-production workloads in the same cluster, recommending deployment strategies like using ReplicaSets and setting specific image tags to ensure stability. Pulumi's policy as code, like Crossguard, helps enforce best practices such as prohibiting naked Pods and ensuring resources are tagged correctly for production. Automating these practices through infrastructure as code provides granular control over resources, preventing common anti-patterns and allowing efficient, concurrent service deployment.