Kubernetes orchestration
Powerful, and more operational weight than most businesses need. We will tell you plainly which side of that line you are on.
Orchestration
Chosen per project
Maintainable handover
Kubernetes solves genuine problems: running many services across many machines, self-healing workloads, rolling deploys and autoscaling, all declared as configuration rather than performed by hand.
It also brings substantial operational weight. A cluster is infrastructure that itself needs upgrading, securing and monitoring. For a single application with steady traffic, a managed container service is usually cheaper, simpler and just as reliable — and we will say so.
What we build with Kubernetes
Many services that need to be deployed and scaled independently
Workloads spanning multiple environments or clouds
Teams already running Kubernetes elsewhere
Genuinely variable load requiring automated scaling
Where it fits — and where it does not
Good fit when
A real microservice estate, not a single application
Someone can own cluster operations
Declarative infrastructure is a deliberate goal
Multi-environment or multi-cloud portability matters
Consider something else when
A single application — managed container services are simpler
Small teams with no dedicated operations capacity
Steady, predictable traffic that never needs to scale
Kubernetes, or a managed container service
This is the decision that matters most, and it is usually settled by how many services you run and who will operate the cluster.
Kubernetes earns its keep
Many services deployed independently
Someone owns cluster operations
Multi-cloud or on-premise portability needed
Genuinely variable, bursty load
Declarative infrastructure is a goal in itself
Use something simpler
One application, or a handful
No dedicated operations capacity
Steady, predictable traffic
ECS, Cloud Run or App Service would do
Team time is better spent on the product
How we work with Kubernetes
Managed control plane
EKS, AKS or GKE rather than self-managed masters — running the control plane yourself is rarely worth it.
Resource limits
Requests and limits set on every workload, because a pod without them can starve its neighbours.
Health probes
Readiness and liveness probes configured properly, which is what makes self-healing actually work.
GitOps
Cluster state declared in a repository, so what is running is reviewable and reproducible.
Our typical Kubernetes setup
| Concern | What we use |
|---|---|
| Cluster | Managed — EKS, AKS or GKE |
| Deployments | Declarative manifests or Helm charts in version control |
| Scaling | Horizontal pod autoscaling on real observed metrics |
| Ingress | Managed ingress controller with automated TLS |
| Observability | Prometheus and Grafana, or the cloud-native equivalent |
| Delivery | GitOps, so cluster state is reviewable in a repository |
Frequently asked questions
Probably not, if you run one application with steady traffic — a managed container service will be cheaper and simpler. It becomes worthwhile with a real microservice estate and someone to own the cluster. We would rather tell you that before you commit.
The cluster itself is modest; the cost is operational. Someone has to upgrade, secure and monitor it. That time is the real expense, and it is what makes managed services better value at smaller scale.
Yes, under a support arrangement covering upgrades, security patching, monitoring and incident response — which is exactly the ongoing work most teams underestimate.
Topics people search for
Services built with Kubernetes
Cloud Solutions
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
Enterprise Software Development
Systems for organisations where several departments, sites and approval chains all have to work from the same data.
Software Maintenance
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem in plain language and we will tell you what it would take to solve it — the approach, the moving parts and the sensible order to build them in. No obligation either way.