The engine room for big apps — running quietly.
Kubernetes is the heavy-duty technology large platforms use to keep dozens of moving parts running smoothly. It's powerful, and it punishes a sloppy setup. We build it properly, keep it patched, keep the bill sane — or tell you honestly that you don't need it.
Half the businesses that ask us for this shouldn't have it.
It sits behind most large platforms for good reason: when you're running dozens of separate pieces of software that all have to stay up, restart themselves, and grow independently, nothing else does the job as well. But it is a full-time thing to look after. Plenty of teams adopt it because it's what serious companies use, then spend a year maintaining a system more complicated than the product it's carrying.
So the first conversation is always the same one: does your product actually need this? If it doesn't, we'll say so and set you up on something simpler for a fraction of the running cost. If it does — and for a lot of platforms it genuinely does — we build it the boring way. Sensible defaults, locked-down access, automatic patching, spending limits, and enough documentation that your team can run it without us in the room.
What we build.
An honest 'do you need this?' conversation
First, free, and sometimes very short. If two managed services would do the same job for a tenth of the running cost, that's what we'll recommend — and we'll happily build that instead.
Set up properly from day one
On AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure — built as code, with private networking, sensible limits, and the security settings most tutorials quietly skip.
Releases that roll out safely
New versions go out gradually and stop themselves if something looks wrong. Your customers see a new feature appear, not a maintenance page.
Capacity that follows demand
More machines when traffic climbs, fewer at 4am, and cheaper spare capacity used wherever it's safe to. This is where most of the savings actually live.
Locked-down access
Who can touch what, rules about which services may talk to each other, passwords stored properly, and every software package scanned before it runs. Not bolted on the week before an audit.
Monitoring wired in from the start
Dashboards, logs, and traces built in rather than added later — so when something misbehaves you can see which piece and why in a minute rather than an hour.
Patching and upgrades handled
A new version arrives every few months and old ones stop being supported quickly. We keep you current on a schedule, in a planned maintenance window, without the drama.
Cost controls that hold
Spending limits per team, an alert when something drifts, and a monthly report showing exactly which part of your product is spending what.
Who this is for.
Platforms with many moving parts
A dozen or more separate services that have to talk to each other, grow independently, and stay up. This is genuinely what the technology was built for.
Products with wildly uneven traffic
Quiet nights, brutal mornings, or seasonal spikes ten times normal. Capacity that follows the curve costs far less than capacity sized for your worst day.
Teams already on it and struggling
Someone set it up, then left. We inherit it, document it, secure it, and turn it into something your current team can actually operate.
Businesses with strict data rules
Regulated industries and government work, where things must run in a specific country, on your own accounts, with a full record of who accessed what.
How we do it.
Assess & advise
We look at your product and tell you honestly whether this is the right answer. Roughly half the time it isn't, and that conversation has saved people a great deal of money.
Design
Layout, environments, networking, access rules, and cost limits — on a single page, agreed with your team before anything gets built.
Build
Everything defined as code and repeatable: clusters, networking, monitoring, and security rules. No hand-clicked settings that nobody can reproduce later.
Move in
We move your applications across one at a time, running old and new side by side until each one has proven itself under real traffic.
Harden
Access rules, network policies, package scanning, backups, spending limits, and a tested plan for the day an entire cluster has a bad time.
Train & hand over
Hands-on sessions with your engineers, written runbooks, and a support period while they take the wheel. We're aiming to become unnecessary.
Tools we use.
Engagement models.
Cluster Setup
from $20k
One production-ready setup, built as code, with monitoring, security defaults, and your first applications running on it.
- One production cluster, built as code
- Automated releases wired in
- Monitoring, logging and alerts
- Runbooks and a training session
Production Platform
from $55k
Multiple environments, gradual rollouts, cost controls, and everything your team needs to add new services themselves.
- Staging and production, built identically
- Self-service templates for new services
- Gradual rollouts that reverse themselves
- Cost limits and per-team reporting
Managed & Enterprise
from $120k
Multi-cluster or multi-region setups, strict compliance requirements, and ongoing management with round-the-clock cover.
- Multiple clusters or regions
- Built for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and data-residency rules
- Patching and upgrades handled for you
- 24/7 on-call cover included
Frequently asked.
5 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.
Probably not, if you run a handful of services with steady traffic — a managed platform will be cheaper and far less work. It starts earning its place at roughly ten or more services, several teams shipping independently, very spiky traffic, or a requirement to run in a specific country. You'll get a straight answer in the first call.