Manual Cluster Configurations
Engineers apply ad-hoc kubectl commands, causing configuration drift between staging and production clusters.
Cloud-Native Container Platforms & Hardening
Kubernetes will happily give you enormous power and enormous ways to hurt yourself.
Kubernetes is unbeatable for resilient, containerized enterprise workloads when engineered correctly, but an operational liability when adopted without strict platform discipline. We build right-sized AKS, EKS, and GKE clusters hardened from the kernel up: Cilium eBPF network security, GitOps synchronization via ArgoCD, automated secret injection via HashiCorp Vault, and multi-tenant isolation. We give your platform team the guardrails to run container workloads reliably without midnight incident pages.
Architecture
TLS 1.3 / mTLS
NIST Aligned
Zero Public Egress
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HTTPS request
Client initiates an authenticated, TLS 1.3 encrypted connection from US or global networks.
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DNS resolve
Authoritative managed DNS resolves the domain endpoint with GeoDNS latency routing.
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Cloud Armor & WAF
Edge security perimeter scrubs layer 7 attacks, OWASP Top 10 exploits, and DDoS anomalies.
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Cloud Load Balancer
High-throughput regional load balancer terminates TLS with perfect forward secrecy.
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Envoy & Cilium eBPF
Envoy Ingress gateway directs traffic into Cilium eBPF mesh with kernel-level mTLS encryption.
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ClusterIP Service
Kubernetes internal virtual IP distributes requests across healthy, autoscaled workload pods.
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Pods & Encrypted DB
Hardened rootless microservice pods process business logic and query US-region governed databases.
Platform & DevOps Friction
Kubernetes challenges we solve.
Eliminating fragile snowflake servers, slow manual releases, brittle scripts, and coordination overhead across engineering teams.
Permissive Flat Network Architecture
Any compromised pod can probe and communicate with all other pods across the entire cluster unrestricted.
Plaintext Secrets in Git Repositories
Base64 Kubernetes secrets are committed to source control, creating critical credential exposure risks.
Solution overview
Kubernetes designed for production readiness.
We build right-sized AKS, EKS, and GKE clusters hardened from the kernel up: Cilium eBPF network security, GitOps synchronization via ArgoCD, automated secret injection via HashiCorp Vault, and multi-tenant isolation. We give your platform team the guardrails to run container workloads reliably without midnight incident pages.
Production Cluster Bootstrapping via IaC
Provision managed clusters (AKS, EKS, GKE) using immutable, reviewed Terraform modules with automated node pool auto-scaling.
Cilium eBPF Network Security & Policies
Enforce granular L3-L7 network policies, transparent mTLS encryption, and real-time network flow observability using Cilium.
GitOps Delivery with ArgoCD & Flux
Implement zero-touch declarative deployment workflows where Git is the single source of truth for all cluster workloads.
Workload Identity & Vault Secret Management
Eliminate hardcoded Kubernetes Secrets by injecting dynamic credentials directly from HashiCorp Vault or Azure Key Vault.
CIS Benchmark & Pod Security Hardening
Enforce Pod Security Admission (PSA) restricted profile, disable root containers, and scan images for CVEs in CI/CD.
Prometheus & OpenTelemetry Monitoring
Deploy complete cluster metrics, persistent alerting rules, and distributed tracing across microservices with Grafana dashboards.
Golden Path Architecture
Reproducible, containerized platform architecture with automated gates.
Architected around modular Infrastructure as Code, immutable container images, zero-trust network policies, and end-to-end telemetry.
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Understand the business goal, current environment, risks and constraints before any design work begins.
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Design the target operating model, controls and integration points so the solution fits how the business actually runs.
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Build and configure the solution using repeatable, reviewed engineering practices, not one-off manual work.
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Test against real scenarios and security requirements before anything reaches production.
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Hand over documentation, runbooks and support so the client team can run the result with confidence.
Delivery model
5 Phases
Milestone-Gated Delivery Model
Every phase ends with a documented deliverable and a clear go/no-go decision before the next one starts.
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Documented Deliverable & Formal Go/No-Go Decision Gate
No code or infrastructure moves to production without passing automated compliance checks and client review.
Zero Vendor Lock-In
Delivered into client Git & cloud accounts
Infrastructure-as-Code
Terraform / Bicep repeatable blueprints
Operational Runbooks
Knowledge transfer & team enablement
Platform Engineering Process
From legacy deployment scripts to self-service developer platforms.
Standardizing Terraform modules, containerizing workloads with Kubernetes, automating release stages, and handing over runbooks.
Workload Scoping & Topology Design
Evaluate compute, memory, storage (CSI), and networking requirements to architect node pools and multi-tenancy models.
Cluster Bootstrapping & CNI Deployment
Deploy managed clusters via Terraform, configure Cilium / Calico CNI, and establish private API server endpoints.
GitOps & Secret Engine Integration
Deploy ArgoCD, integrate cloud workload identities, and configure HashiCorp Vault / Azure Key Vault secrets injection.
Security Hardening & CIS Verification
Implement Kyverno / OPA policy gates, enforce restricted Pod Security Admission, and verify against the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark.
Blue/Green Cutover & SRE Handover
Perform migration dry-runs, validate Prometheus alerting, and transfer cluster operation runbooks to your engineering team.
Engineering Velocity
Accelerated release frequency with production stability.
Ship features safely multiple times a day with automated rollback, standardized developer environments, and comprehensive telemetry.
100% Declarative GitOps Operations
Cluster state is fully version-controlled; rollbacks and disaster recovery recreations take minutes.
Kernel-Level eBPF Zero Trust
Inter-service communication is encrypted and restricted strictly to explicitly authorized service paths.
Zero-Downtime Node Pool Upgrades
Automated cordon and drain sequencing allows routine OS and Kubernetes version patching without outage.
DevOps Toolchain
Container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines & IaC tooling.
Production-proven open standards and cloud-native tools selected for maintainability, security, and developer ergonomics.
Kubernetes
AKS
EKS
GKE
Terraform
ArgoCD
Cilium
Helm
HashiCorp Vault
Prometheus
Every new environment was a snowflake. We made them reproducible.
One cloud base that every team reuses, so new setups are quick and stay in line.
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Platform FAQ
Common questions on platform engineering.
Practical guidance on container adoption, pipeline automation, and operational ownership.
How do you handle stateful databases and persistent storage on Kubernetes?
For mission-critical production databases, we generally recommend managed cloud database services (like Azure Database for PostgreSQL or AWS RDS). When running stateful workloads inside the cluster is required, we deploy CSI drivers backed by resilient block storage with automated snapshots and Velero disaster recovery backups.
How do you achieve zero-downtime upgrades for production Kubernetes nodes?
We configure Pod Disruption Budgets (PDBs) and utilize surge node pools. Upgrades sequentially cordon and gracefully drain nodes, rescheduling pods to newly patched nodes while ingress controllers continuously maintain health-checked traffic routing.
Can Kubernetes clusters comply with NIST SP 800-53 and FedRAMP cloud requirements?
Yes. Our Kubernetes architectures implement NIST SP 800-53 controls: private cluster API endpoints with no public IP exposure, mutual TLS encryption between pods via eBPF, role-based access control tied to enterprise identity, and continuous image vulnerability scanning.
What backup and disaster recovery strategies do you implement for Kubernetes?
We deploy Velero integrated with encrypted cloud object storage to perform scheduled backups of cluster state, persistent volume data, and Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs). Because all configuration lives in Git via GitOps, rebuilding a complete cluster from scratch is fast and repeatable.
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