Containers & orchestration
Managed Kubernetes — production-grade, opinionated, boring.
EKS, GKE, AKS or self-hosted. We bootstrap the cluster, harden the node pools, wire the service mesh, deploy via GitOps, watch the SLOs and walk in front of incidents.
What we manage
Cluster bootstrapping
EKS / GKE / AKS provisioning via Terraform or Crossplane, node-pool design, version-upgrade cadence (no clusters left more than 1 minor behind).
Workload deployment
Helm charts, Kustomize, Argo CD or Flux for GitOps. Progressive delivery with Argo Rollouts or Flagger.
Service mesh & networking
Istio, Linkerd or Cilium service mesh, mTLS between services, ingress controllers (NGINX / Envoy / Gateway API), east-west and north-south traffic policy.
Admission & runtime security
Pod Security Standards, OPA / Kyverno policies, Falco runtime detection, image signing enforcement, workload identity (IRSA / Workload Identity).
Autoscaling & FinOps
Cluster Autoscaler / Karpenter tuning, HPA / VPA tuning, spot / preemptible node pools, idle namespace cleanup. Typically 20-30% compute savings.
Observability
Prometheus + Grafana / Cloud Monitoring, OpenTelemetry tracing (Tempo / X-Ray), structured logs to Loki, SLO budgets per service.
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 24, 20261 min read
EKS vs GKE vs AKS in 2026 — an honest field comparison
We run all three for customers. Here's where each one quietly wins, where it loses, and the decision framework we actually use.
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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 20, 20261 min read
The CIS-aligned Kubernetes security baseline we ship on day one
Pod Security Standards, Kyverno policies, NetworkPolicies, audit logging — the controls we apply to every customer cluster before workloads arrive.
Read snippetMay 18, 20261 min read
A pragmatic Argo CD setup — GitOps that survives contact with reality
GitOps is sold as magic. In practice the magic happens when your repo structure, sync waves, and secrets strategy all work together. Here's the layout we run.
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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