Overview
There's a big gap between "a cluster that runs kubectl get pods" and a cluster you can actually put customer traffic on. This engagement closes that gap. I design and deploy a Kubernetes environment with the operational basics built in from the start — not bolted on after your first incident.
Whether you're moving off a single Docker host, migrating from another orchestrator, or standing up your first cluster, you end up with something a team can operate confidently.
What's Included
- Managed or self-hosted cluster — EKS, GKE, or kubeadm-based bare metal, sized for your actual workload
- Namespace & RBAC strategy — environment separation, least-privilege service accounts, and team access boundaries
- Ingress controller + TLS — NGINX or Traefik ingress with cert-manager for automated certificate renewal
- Autoscaling — Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and cluster autoscaler (or Karpenter on AWS), tuned to your traffic patterns
- Helm chart organization — a sane structure for packaging and versioning your application deployments
- Handover documentation — architecture diagram, runbook, and a live walkthrough with your team
Our Process
- Requirements call — workload profile, expected traffic, compliance constraints, existing cloud footprint.
- Architecture proposal — a written plan covering cluster topology, networking, and scaling strategy before anything is built.
- Build — cluster provisioning (usually via Terraform), core add-ons, and a first application deployment to validate the setup end-to-end.
- Handover — documentation, runbooks, and a walkthrough session so your team owns the cluster going forward.
Who This Is For
Teams launching a new product on Kubernetes, migrating off ECS/Docker Swarm/a single VM, or replacing a cluster that was stood up quickly and never hardened. Best suited to teams that want a real foundation, not a proof of concept.
FAQ
Which cloud providers do you support? AWS (EKS), GCP (GKE), and self-managed/bare-metal clusters. Azure (AKS) is available on request.
Do you handle the Terraform for this too? Yes — cluster infrastructure is provisioned as code by default, paired with the Terraform Infrastructure as Code service if you want your whole cloud footprint managed that way.
What happens after handover? You own the cluster. Ongoing support and monitoring setup are available separately — see the Monitoring and Disaster Recovery services.