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Kubernetes Consulting

Production-grade Kubernetes clusters that won't keep your team up at night — DR-tested, CNCF-conformant, RKE2 and Rancher included.

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Supported Ecosystem

Kubernetes
RKE2
Rancher
Helm
ArgoCD
Istio
Containerd
Scope

What we cover

From initial cluster setup to production optimisation — the same engineer who builds it also trains your team on how to maintain it. Knowledge transfer is a mandatory deliverable, not an optional add-on.

Cluster Architecture Design

Single-tenant, multi-tenant, bare-metal, and managed (EKS/GKE/AKS) — evaluate the tradeoffs and design an architecture that fits your team and workload.

RBAC and Namespace Management

Role-based access control configuration; namespace isolation per team or project, and policy enforcement to prevent privilege escalation.

Helm Chart Development

Per-application Helm charts, values management across environments, OCI Helm registry, and semantic versioning.

Zero-Downtime Upgrade Strategy

Kubernetes minor/patch upgrade planning: drain workers first, validate compatibility, PDB-protected — no uncontrolled restarts in production.

GitOps with ArgoCD / Flux

Bind cluster state to Git. Every change is tracked, auditable, and reversible. ArgoCD or Flux — whichever fits your workflow.

Cluster Security Hardening

CIS Kubernetes Benchmark remediation: API server flags, etcd encryption, kubelet security settings — hardened by default.

Process

Migration Roadmap

From VM monolith to CNCF-conformant HA cluster — every phase documented, reversible, and understood by your team.

  1. 1

    Infrastructure Audit

    Analyse current VM and container workloads. Inventory, dependency map, and migration risk assessment — documented before writing a single config file.

  2. 2

    Cluster Design

    HA multi-master architecture, network policy, RBAC, and IaC (Terraform/Ansible) plan. Every decision is recorded and justified.

  3. 3

    Zero-Downtime Migration

    Canary or blue-green migration strategy. RKE2/Helm installation with ArgoCD-driven GitOps synchronisation from day one.

  4. 4

    Day-2 Operations Handover

    HPA configuration, upgrade runbook, DR test results, and Grafana dashboards transferred to your team with a live walkthrough.

Visual Proof

VM Monolith → Enterprise Kubernetes

How the manual-intervention burden and reliability problems of traditional infrastructure disappear with production-grade Kubernetes.

Feature
VM Monolith
RKE2 Multi-Master HA
Failover Time
5–15 minutes (manual intervention)
< 30 seconds (automated, self-healing)
Scaling
Manual VM clone + provision
HPA / KEDA — seconds, not hours
Deployment
SSH + custom deploy.sh script
GitOps (ArgoCD), PR-approved
Config Management
Snowflake servers, SSH configuration drift
IaC, idempotent, version-controlled
Uptime Target
~99.5% (planned maintenance windows)
> 99.95%, zero-downtime upgrades
DR Testing
Rarely run, undocumented
Chaos Engineering, scheduled periodically
Observability
No logging or partial coverage
Metrics + Logs + Traces (3 pillars)

Production reference: Teknosa A.Ş. — Rancher RKE2 multi-cluster deployment and management across dev / uat / prod / dr environments. Failover time reduced from 12 minutes to < 30 seconds.

Deep Dive

Kubernetes Resource Management

We configure CPU and memory settings to best-practice standards so applications use cluster resources efficiently, predictably, and safely. Throttling and OOMKills get resolved before they reach production.

Requests & Limits

Right-sizing CPU and memory per container. Insufficient requests cause scheduling failures; oversized limits cause OOMKills. We find the right values from real usage data.

HPA Configuration

Horizontal Pod Autoscaler based on CPU/memory or custom metrics (KEDA or Prometheus Adapter). Scale-down policies included to prevent thrashing.

VPA for Automatic Sizing

Run Vertical Pod Autoscaler in Recommendation mode to surface actual usage vs. configured limits — no guessing required.

ResourceQuota and LimitRange

Per-team CPU/memory/pod quotas; namespace-level defaults to prevent unconfigured containers from consuming cluster resources.

Pod Disruption Budget

PDB definitions to guarantee application availability during node maintenance, cluster upgrades, and voluntary disruptions.

CPU Throttling Detection

Identify throttling hotspots via container_cpu_throttled_seconds_total metrics. Optimise limit-to-request ratios to eliminate unnecessary throttling.

On-Premise & Hybrid

Rancher & RKE2 Expertise

When managed cloud Kubernetes isn't the right fit — production-grade cluster deployment and centralised management with the Rancher ecosystem. Fleet GitOps, CIS Benchmark hardening, and multi-cluster oversight from a single control plane.

Architecture Layers

RKE2 Cluster Deployment

FIPS 140-2 compliant

Production-grade cluster on bare-metal or VMs from scratch: control plane + worker nodes, with CIS hardening profile applied by default.

Rancher Management Server

SSO integration

Rancher UI setup, user/project/policy management, and SSO integration for centralised access control across all clusters.

Multi-Cluster Management

Fleet GitOps

Manage multiple downstream clusters from a single Rancher instance. Centralised access control, monitoring, and Fleet GitOps.

CIS Hardening

CIS Benchmark

CIS Benchmark profiles, audit log configuration, and security hardening — leveraging RKE2's native security features.

Technologies

Kubernetes RKE2 Rancher Helm kubectl Kustomize ArgoCD Flux EKS GKE AKS

Who is this for?

Teams migrating to Kubernetes for the first time, teams wanting to deploy on-premise with RKE2, and engineering teams looking to centrally manage multiple clusters with Rancher. Also for teams hitting recurring OOMKills, CPU throttling, or unstable deployments in production who need root-cause analysis and a lasting fix.

Ready to talk through your stack?

A direct technical conversation about where you are and what needs fixing.

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