Containers & orchestration
Containers, built right and shipped safely.
Minimal hardened base images, scanned dependencies, signed and attested artifacts, private registries with admission gating. The container layer Kubernetes can actually trust.
What we manage
Image hardening
Minimal base images (distroless, Alpine, Wolfi), multi-stage builds, dependency scanning (Trivy, Snyk, Grype), SBOM generation and CVE-driven rebuilds.
Registries & supply chain
Private registries (ECR, Artifact Registry, ACR, GHCR, Harbor), image signing with Cosign, attestations and a deploy gate that refuses unsigned images.
Build pipelines
GitHub Actions / GitLab CI / Buildkite container builds, build cache strategy, BuildKit features, reproducible builds, layer hygiene.
Runtime security
Container hardening profiles, seccomp / AppArmor, runtime threat detection (Falco), least-privilege capabilities, secret injection patterns.
Image size & build time
Image-size budgets, build-time tracking, cache hit-rate, registry storage costs reviewed quarterly.
Container observability
Container-aware logging (stdout/stderr structured), OpenTelemetry init containers, per-container CPU / memory / IO graphs.
Compatible across every cloud we manage
Same playbook on AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and DigitalOcean — pick the cloud, we'll run the stack.
How we engage
1. Assess
Two-week audit of your current cloud setup against the provider's Well-Architected / Architecture Framework. Concrete findings, no fluff.
2. Stabilise
We close the top security, reliability and cost gaps before going into steady-state operations.
3. Operate
24/7 monitoring, on-call, change management, monthly reviews and a roadmap for the next quarter.
DIY guides & field notes
Build it yourself — or have us do it for you
Short articles, runbooks and field notes from our engineers. Each one starts here as a snippet and continues on Medium.
May 26, 20261 min read
Multi-arch Docker builds in 2026 — shipping ARM and x86 from the same pipeline
Graviton, Ampere, and Apple Silicon make ARM real in production. Here's how we build multi-arch images that work everywhere, without 3x the build time.
Read snippetMay 23, 20261 min read
PM2 vs cluster vs containers — how we run Node.js in 2026
PM2 was the right answer in 2018. The cluster module was the right answer before that. In 2026 the answer depends on what you're optimising for.
Read snippetMay 22, 20261 min read
From Docker Compose to Kubernetes — the migration that doesn't have to be painful
A staged migration playbook from docker-compose to Kubernetes, including the patterns that translate cleanly and the ones that need rethinking.
Read snippetMay 19, 20261 min read
Dockerfile best practices in 2026 — the patterns that actually matter
Most Dockerfile guides are stale. Here are the patterns that pay off in production: multi-stage builds, build cache mounts, distroless bases, and the rootless story.
Read snippetMay 8, 20261 min read
Six Kubernetes cost leaks we find on almost every cluster
Idle namespaces, oversized requests, EBS snapshot sprawl, NAT egress bills — the recurring ways K8s burns 25-40% of your compute budget.
Read snippetMay 6, 20262 min read
A practical Docker image supply chain: signed, scanned, attested
Cosign, Trivy, SBOMs and admission policies — the minimum container supply-chain setup we ship on every customer cluster.
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