Kubernetes & Containers

Production container platforms, multi-cloud orchestration, and bare-metal Kubernetes. Our designs have run in production across 1,300+ servers and 13 providers with multi-site active-active failover.

Kubernetes is powerful and complex. The gap between a working cluster and a production-grade platform is measured in months of accumulated operational knowledge — knowledge about failure modes, upgrade strategies, networking edge cases, and the subtle ways resource limits interact with application behavior. Zenarca has that knowledge, earned running container platforms across 1,300+ servers and 13 cloud providers with multi-site active-active failover.

We build container platforms that teams can trust. That means proper RBAC, network policies, pod disruption budgets, horizontal pod autoscaling tuned to real traffic patterns, and ingress configuration that handles certificates and routing without surprises. It means GitOps workflows so deployments are auditable, ArgoCD so the cluster state matches what's in git, and monitoring that surfaces real signals rather than alert noise.

We also work with bare-metal Kubernetes, which most consultancies avoid. Bare-metal offers better performance per dollar for the right workloads, and our experience with networking, storage, and hardware lifecycle makes us comfortable in environments where the cloud provider isn't handling the undifferentiated heavy lifting.

Use Cases

  • Production Kubernetes cluster design and buildout (cloud and bare-metal)
  • Multi-cloud and multi-region Kubernetes federation
  • GitOps workflows with ArgoCD for declarative deployments
  • Container platform hardening: RBAC, network policies, pod security
  • Cluster upgrades, migrations, and zero-downtime maintenance

Technologies

  • Kubernetes
  • ArgoCD
  • Helm
  • Docker
  • Cilium
  • Ingress-NGINX
  • cert-manager
  • Prometheus / Grafana

Ready to get started?

Reach out to discuss your specific needs. We'll talk through the problem and tell you honestly whether we're the right fit.

rick@zenarca.com