Make Kubernetes boring — so your team can ship product again.

Production Readiness Audit

The full version of the free scorecard, run by a person against your real cluster. Read-only access, scoped and revoked at the end. It answers three questions: what can take production down, what is the bill hiding, and what should you fix first.

• Week 0 — the hard questions: what runs here, what an hour of downtime costs, who can operate it, when the last restore test happened.
• Week 1 — the audit: deployment path, RBAC & secrets, cost, observability signal-to-noise, backup reality, upgrade posture.
• Week 2 — deliverables: risk map (impact × likelihood), cost opportunity in €/month, remediation backlog of max 10 items with effort estimates.

Production Kubernetes Operations

Design and hardening of the operating model: zero-downtime deployments (readiness, graceful shutdown, PDBs), upgrade cadence with deprecated-API checks, tested backup/restore with Velero, and everything-in-Git so the cluster survives the person who built it.

Managed Kubernetes: AKS, EKS, GKE

Migrations from VMs or docker-compose to managed Kubernetes, landing-zone architecture (networking, identity, registries), and multi-cloud honesty: which managed tier you need, which you don't, and when Cloud Run/App Runner/ECS beats Kubernetes entirely. Stateless first, databases last, compose kept alive until the new platform survives two weeks of real traffic.

Istio Service Mesh

Traffic management, mutual TLS, retries/timeouts and mesh-level observability — implemented when the case is real (multi-service auth, compliance-driven encryption in transit, progressive delivery). And the cheaper first step when it isn't: the assessment that says "NetworkPolicies and a good ingress cover you for two more years" is part of the service.

Cost Optimization

The eight leaks, hunted systematically: requests vs. real usage, log ingestion and retention, non-prod schedules, load-balancer consolidation, cross-AZ traffic, orphaned volumes, spot strategy, and OpenCost so the number has an owner. Typical outcome for a first-time audit: 30–60% off the total bill with no architecture changes.

Security & Compliance Baseline

The baseline an enterprise customer's questionnaire expects from a company your size: RBAC scoped per human and workload, secrets via External Secrets/Vault/SOPS with real rotation, Kyverno admission policies, NetworkPolicies, image scanning, private API server. Done before the deal appears — not under deadline with an auditor watching.

Observability & GitOps

The stack a small team can actually operate: OpenTelemetry Collector as the single pipeline, Prometheus with golden-signal dashboards, alerts only on symptoms users feel, log retention that doesn't eat the budget. Plus GitOps with Argo CD sized for a team of three: auto-sync on dev, one-click prod, rollback = git revert.

Team Enablement & Runbooks

The exit strategy from key-person risk: runbooks for the top failure scenarios written and tested by someone else, supervised upgrade and restore drills, cost/security reviews folded into existing rituals. Includes bilingual delivery (English/Spanish) for distributed teams.