Kubernetes Consulting

We'll be direct: most teams don't need Kubernetes yet. If you're running fewer than 10 services, have a team smaller than 20 engineers, or don't have strict high availability requirements — Docker Compose with a well-designed CI/CD pipeline is almost certainly the better choice. It's simpler to operate, easier to debug, and much faster to get right.

Kubernetes makes sense when you need: independent scaling of individual services, multi-team isolation with RBAC, Kubernetes-native tooling in your organization, or a platform that handles complex deployment patterns like canary releases and traffic splitting.

For self-hosted Kubernetes, we recommend k3s — a certified Kubernetes distribution that runs on a single node or small cluster with a fraction of the resource overhead of full Kubernetes. A k3s cluster can run on a $20/month VPS and supports nearly all Kubernetes workloads.

We configure k3s with Traefik for ingress, Longhorn for distributed storage, cert-manager for automatic SSL, and ArgoCD for GitOps deployments. The result is a fully featured Kubernetes cluster that's actually operationally manageable.

We implement Kubernetes with security and reliability from the start: network policies to isolate namespaces, Pod Security Standards enforcement, resource requests and limits on every workload, pod disruption budgets for high availability, proper liveness and readiness probes, and RBAC that follows least-privilege principles.

We also configure cluster-level monitoring (kube-state-metrics, node exporter, Prometheus Operator) and alerting for node health, pod restart loops, and resource saturation before they become incidents.