Where Kubernetes fits in a long-term product team.

Kubernetes solves a real problem once you have enough services that placing them by hand stops being reasonable. It gives every team the same deployment interface, recovers from a failed node without anyone waking up, and turns scaling into a configuration change.

It is also the clearest example of a platform adopted before it was needed. Three services on two machines do not need a cluster; they need a deploy script and a backup. Kubernetes brings its own kinds of incident, such as misconfigured limits, evictions and networking that behaves differently in production, and those need an owner outside the product team.

What your dedicated team does with Kubernetes.

A cluster needs an owner who is not also shipping features, because the two jobs interrupt each other and the platform always loses. Organisations that adopt Kubernetes without that person get a cluster configured once, upgraded never, and understood by whoever happens to be on call.

The work is continuous: version upgrades, certificate rotation, capacity planning, and the incident that turns out to be a memory limit set in 2023. Your dedicated cloud and DevOps team looks after it continuously, with no end date.

Common Kubernetes use cases.

  • One deployment path for several teams Teams shipping without each inventing their own release process, which is where platform engineering earns its cost.
  • Making scale a setting Capacity that follows demand, with limits set from measured behaviour.
  • Taking the cluster off the product team Someone owning the platform so feature engineers stop losing days to it.

Adding Kubernetes skills to your team.

Cluster work is handled by your managed DevOps team, inside your own cloud account. If you don't need Kubernetes yet, we'll recommend a simpler setup at scoping. Capacity is agreed as one committed monthly capacity for your team, not per skill.

Every Kubernetes specialist we assign works remotely inside your tools as a dedicated member of your team, with the management on our side. It is how companies hire remote developers without opening an offshore office of their own.

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