⎈ Managed Kubernetes

Kubernetes that doesn't wake you up at night

I build and run your clusters, migrate apps into k8s, and set up GitOps, autoscaling and monitoring. You get a reliable platform — without hiring a dedicated platform team.

99.9%
Target cluster uptime
GitOps
Declarative, with rollbacks
24/7
Monitoring & self-healing

Kubernetes turned out harder than promised?

The usual picture when a cluster gets spun up but no platform is built around it

🤯

YAML hell and manual kubectl apply

Manifests scattered everywhere, deploys done from the terminal, nobody really knows what's running in prod. Recreating the cluster from scratch is impossible.

💰

The cloud bill for k8s hurts

Nodes sit idle, requests/limits are guessed, managed control-plane and traffic add up. You pay several times what the cluster actually uses.

💥

Pods crash and nobody knows why

CrashLoopBackOff, OOMKilled, evicted — without proper metrics and logs, debugging becomes guesswork and incidents drag on for hours.

🔒

The cluster is wide open

RBAC of "cluster-admin for everyone", no NetworkPolicy, unscanned images, secrets in ConfigMaps. One compromised pod and everything is exposed.

📐

It doesn't scale under load

Under peak the service falls over, autoscaling is missing or misconfigured. And at idle the same resources burn budget for nothing.

🏗️

Stuck at "we spun it up, now what?"

The cluster exists, but there's no CI/CD for it, no ingress/cert-manager, no backups or upgrade plan. k8s is running but never became a platform.

Services

The full lifecycle around Kubernetes — from your first cluster to a mature platform

// 01

Turnkey cluster

I design and stand up a production-ready cluster — in the cloud or on your servers. Not bare k8s, but a ready platform with ingress, TLS and logs out of the box.

  • Managed (EKS/GKE/Yandex) or self-hosted (kubeadm/k3s)
  • Ingress, cert-manager, automatic TLS
  • Storage, networking (CNI), namespaces and quotas
  • Reproducible via Terraform
Stand up a cluster
// 02

Migration to Kubernetes

I move apps from VMs, docker-compose or another cloud into k8s — with zero downtime for users and without rewriting everything.

  • Containerization and Helm charts for your services
  • Gradual traffic cutover, fast rollback
  • Stateful workloads and databases
  • Documentation and handover to the team
Plan a migration
// 03

GitOps & CI/CD

The cluster lives in git, deploys go through pull requests. ArgoCD/Flux keep state in sync, and any deploy rolls back with a single commit.

  • ArgoCD / FluxCD for your repository
  • Helm / Kustomize, dev/stage/prod environments
  • Auto-deploy from CI with checks
  • Full audit: who deployed what and when
Adopt GitOps
// 04

Observability

I make the cluster transparent: metrics, logs and traces in one place, clear dashboards and alerts before prod goes down.

  • Prometheus + Grafana, kube-state-metrics
  • Logs via Loki, tracing (OpenTelemetry)
  • Alerts to Telegram / on-call
  • SLOs and dashboards for your services
Set up monitoring
// 05

Autoscaling & cost optimization

The cluster grows under load and shrinks at idle. Requests/limits are set from real usage, not guesses — and the cloud bill drops.

  • HPA / VPA and Cluster Autoscaler
  • Right-sizing of requests and limits
  • Spot/preemptible nodes for suitable workloads
  • Savings report (FinOps)
Optimize the cluster
// 06

Cluster operations

I take the cluster under management: version upgrades, backups, incident response. Your platform engineer on a retainer.

  • k8s and chart upgrades with no downtime
  • Backups (Velero) and tested recovery
  • On-call and incident response
  • Monthly cluster health report
Put me on retainer

Pricing

Transparent packages with a fixed outcome. No abstract "billable hours"

Audit

Cluster audit

from €800

A review of your existing cluster: reliability, security, cost and what to fix first

  • Configuration and RBAC review
  • Resource and cost analysis
  • Cluster security audit
  • Roadmap with priorities
  • Walkthrough on a call
Request an audit
Managed

Cluster on retainer

from €1,000 / mo

Your external platform engineer: I keep the cluster healthy and respond to incidents

  • Upgrades, patches, backups
  • Monitoring and incident response
  • Platform evolution and automation
  • Priority response time
  • Monthly cluster report
Put me on retainer

One-off tasks and consulting

Targeted setup, cluster architecture reviews and Kubernetes consulting

€45 / hour

How I work

From "we spun up a cluster" to a mature platform you can trust with prod

01

Assess

I review your current cluster or task, gauge load, reliability and cost, and find the bottlenecks

02

Plan & prioritize

I fix the architecture and what to implement first. Transparent estimate and timeline

03

Implement

I stand up the cluster, write IaC, set up GitOps and monitoring. In sprints, with demos

04

Operate

I hand over docs, train the team and stay available. The cluster runs without surprises

What you get

A measurable outcome instead of "well, the cluster kind of works"

99.9%
Cluster uptime
-40%
Cloud spend
1 PR
To deploy and to roll back
< 15m
To an incident alert

Stack

Cloud-native, open tools and CNCF standards — no vendor lock-in

Kubernetes k3s Helm Kustomize ArgoCD FluxCD Terraform Ingress-NGINX cert-manager Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Velero Cilium EKS / GKE Yandex Managed k8s Helm charts

Frequently asked

Not always. If you run one or two services with no growth plans, k8s may be overkill — and I'll say so honestly at the audit. Kubernetes pays off when you need scaling, high availability, many services or teams. Sometimes k3s or even docker-compose is the right call.

Yes, that's a typical job. I start with an audit: find reliability, security and cost issues, get the cluster in order and build the missing pieces — GitOps, monitoring, backups. Without recreating from scratch unless it's actually needed.

I work with both. Managed (EKS, GKE, Yandex Managed Kubernetes) means less control-plane hassle. Self-hosted (kubeadm, k3s) is cheaper and provider-independent. At the audit we'll pick the option that fits your budget and requirements.

Cluster audit from €800, turnkey platform from €2,400, operations from €1,000/month. The exact price is fixed after a free express audit. You pay for results in stages — no hourly "meter".

Yes — a common, fast-paying-off request. Right-sizing requests/limits, autoscaling, spot nodes and removing idle resources typically cut the cluster bill by 30–50%. You get a report with concrete savings.

The opposite. Everything is described as code (IaC + GitOps) and documented, the stack is open and portable. I train your team so the cluster lives without me. Operations are optional, not a dependency.

Let's review your cluster in 24 hours

Leave a contact — I'll run a free express audit and send what to improve in your cluster's reliability, security and cost

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