// Kubernetes and containers
Container Orchestration
Kubernetes, Docker, and OpenShift in production: cluster setup, workload tuning, and the operational parts most teams postpone. CKA, CKAD, and CKS certified, AWS first.
One certified senior engineer on the work. No sales layer, no juniors.
// Services
Our Container Orchestration Services
Kubernetes Management
EKS cluster setup, version upgrades, autoscaling, and the resource limits that stop nodes from thrashing. Managed control plane by default.
Container Strategy
Dockerfiles that build fast and stay small, multi-stage builds, and ECR lifecycle rules so old images stop piling up.
OpenShift Solutions
If you already run OpenShift, the same work applies: builds, quotas, RBAC, project isolation. Most of our engagements are EKS.
// From a recent engagement
On a data governance SaaS (NDA), rightsizing ECS workloads against real utilization, moving eligible services to Graviton, and adding ECR lifecycle policies were part of a 46% cut to the AWS bill.
// In detail
Container Solutions in Detail
Kubernetes Services
Cluster Management:
- EKS cluster setup with managed node groups or Karpenter
- Version upgrades and add-on lifecycle, planned and rehearsed
- Autoscaling: HPA for pods, Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler for nodes
- Requests, limits, and PodDisruptionBudgets set from measured usage
Kubernetes Features:
- Ingress with the AWS Load Balancer Controller or NGINX, TLS terminated at the edge
- Persistent storage through the EBS and EFS CSI drivers, StatefulSets where they are warranted
- IRSA so pods assume IAM roles instead of carrying static keys
- Helm charts with per environment values, no copy-pasted YAML trees
Container Strategy & Docker Services
Containerization Services:
- Containerization assessment: what moves cleanly, what needs work first
- Multi-stage Docker builds and image size reduction
- Amazon ECR setup with immutable tags and lifecycle policies
- Image scanning in CI, with a threshold that fails builds on real findings
Docker Technologies:
- Docker Engine and Compose for local parity with production
- BuildKit layer caching so CI builds stay short
- Base image hygiene: slim or distroless, pinned versions, rebuilt on a schedule
- Image promotion between environments instead of rebuilding per stage
OpenShift Platform Work
OpenShift Services:
- Cluster and project configuration review
- Source-to-Image (S2I) and BuildConfig pipelines
- RBAC, resource quotas, and project isolation
- Integration with the CI/CD pipelines you already run
Where OpenShift Fits:
- Teams already on Red Hat, with someone in-house to run the platform
- Most of our production work is EKS, so expect an AWS-first opinion
- If you are choosing now, EKS is usually the cheaper path to operate
- Kubernetes fundamentals carry over either way: pods, RBAC, network policy
Container Security & Compliance
Security Services:
- Pod Security Standards and least-privilege RBAC
- Network policies between namespaces instead of a flat cluster network
- Runtime detection for container events that should never happen
- Secrets pulled from AWS Secrets Manager, never committed to YAML
Security Tools:
- Falco for runtime events
- Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper admission policies
- Trivy scanning images and Terraform in CI
- cert-manager for certificate lifecycle and mTLS between services
// Stack
Container Technologies We Use
Kubernetes
EKS in production. CKA, CKAD, and CKS certified.
Docker
Multi-stage builds, small images, short CI runs.
OpenShift
S2I builds, projects, quotas, RBAC.
Helm Charts
One chart, per environment values, reviewable diffs.
// Why it is worth doing
Why Choose Our Container Orchestration Services
Rapid Scaling
Autoscaling driven by real demand, with rolling updates that keep serving traffic during a deploy.
Hardened Defaults
Pod Security Standards, network policies, and RBAC set once and enforced at admission, not by convention.
Fewer Moving Parts
One way to build, one way to ship, one place to look when a deploy goes wrong.
Resource Efficiency
Requests and limits based on measured usage. Most clusters we open are paying for headroom nobody uses.
Kubernetes is not free. It buys you scheduling and consistency, and it costs you a platform to operate. If ECS Fargate covers what you need, we will say so.
// Process
Our Container Orchestration Process
Assessment & Planning
We go through the applications and the current infrastructure and say which workloads are ready to containerize and which need work first.
Platform Setup
Cluster, networking, ingress, storage, and registry built as Terraform, so the environment can be rebuilt from the repository.
Application Migration
Workloads move one at a time behind a rollback path. Nothing gets cut over until the previous slice is stable.
Security Implementation
RBAC, network policies, Pod Security Standards, image scanning in CI, and secrets moved out of manifests.
Monitoring & Handover
Metrics, logs, and alerts wired up, runbooks written for the failures that repeat, and your engineers walked through all of it.
// Next step
Ready to Modernize with Container Orchestration?
The easiest way to start is the AWS Quick Wins Audit, a fixed scope review of your account that includes what your clusters actually cost.