Build and Operate Kubernetes with Confidence
Kubernetes should make delivery more repeatable, not create a new layer of operational uncertainty. I work directly with engineering teams on the foundations that make production clusters easier to secure, change, observe, and recover.
This is a scoped consulting engagement rather than a generic retainer. We start with the problem you need to solve, agree the practical outcome, and work from a clear plan.
Areas of Kubernetes Consulting
- Production readiness — workload configuration, availability patterns, autoscaling, disruption handling, and operational handover
- Security and access — RBAC, service accounts, secrets, Pod Security Standards, NetworkPolicy, ingress, and TLS
- Reliability and troubleshooting — investigate unhealthy workloads, scheduling and capacity issues, networking, DNS, and deployment failure modes
- Delivery and GitOps — Helm, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, environment promotion, and safer rollback paths
- Observability — Prometheus, Grafana, logs, traces, useful alerts, and runbooks that support on-call engineers
- Infrastructure as code — Terraform-based Kubernetes and cloud foundations that can be reviewed and repeated
A Good Starting Point: Kubernetes Cluster Audit
If the current state is unclear, start with the fixed-price Kubernetes Cluster Audit. For $500, you receive a written, prioritized assessment in 3–5 business days. It is a useful way to identify the right remediation work before committing to a larger engagement.
Focused Kubernetes Expertise
Some situations call for a focused engagement. Kubernetes Security Consulting covers access, workload, network, secrets, and hardening controls. Kubernetes Observability & Monitoring focuses on Prometheus, Grafana, alerting, logging, tracing, and the operational signals needed to run production workloads.
For practical technical context, see the Kubernetes Cluster Audit Checklist and Observability Stack guidance.
How Engagements Work
- Discovery — understand the environment, constraints, and what a successful outcome looks like.
- Scope — agree the work, deliverables, access requirements, and fixed price where the work is well defined.
- Implement and validate — make changes with your team’s operating practices in mind.
- Handover — provide documentation and a walkthrough so the team can own the result.
Who This Is For
Growing engineering teams running—or preparing to run—production workloads on EKS, GKE, AKS, or self-managed Kubernetes. It is especially useful when platform responsibilities are shared across application engineers and there is no dedicated Kubernetes specialist on staff.