• Infrastructure and Environment Readiness: Skip the setup – we provide a ready-to-use environment. If you’d like to integrate your existing infrastructure, we offer tailored support.
• Organizational Readiness and Skills Assessment: No need to train or up-skill your infra and operations teams extensively. We manage the setup and operations with extensive documentation, self-service options, and ongoing support.
• Security and Compliance Assessment: We ensure that all security protocols and compliance standards (HIPAA, GDPR, PCI-DSS) are met, helping you comply with complex regulatory concerns.
• Tooling and Ecosystem Selection: We’ve already curated and integrated the best Kubernetes ecosystem tools for running and operating your services.
• Proof of Concept (PoC): Start quickly with our PoC process – we’ll handle the setup, allowing you to validate whether our (hosted) solution meets your needs.
• Implementation Roadmap & Strategy Development: A roadmap for Kubernetes is not necessary anymore, our solution provides everything you need to get started with your services.
• Risk Assessment & Contingency Planning: Risk is significantly reduced because you do not need to invest time and money in setting up a Kubernetes based environment. If our solution does not suit your needs, just take your configurations and run it on another Kubernetes platform.

• Business and Technical Goals Assessment: While we provide an end-to-end solution, you still need to define your objectives and success indicators.
• Workload Analysis: Your team needs to assess which applications and workloads are appropriate for a containerized environment.
• Cost Analysis and ROI Evaluation: Although we handle operational concerns, it’s up to you to evaluate financial impacts and define how you’d measure return on investment (ROI).
• Stakeholder Communication and Buy-In: Internal alignment is crucial. You’ll need to engage your stakeholders and ensure goals are understood and supported across your organization.

• Cluster Design and High Availability Setup: Forget about designing control plane architectures or configuring HA – our platform is pre-architected for scalability and resilience.
• Infrastructure Provisioning: Skip the manual setup of virtual machines, physical servers or cloud infrastructure. We provide an optimized infrastructure, whether in the cloud or on-premises.
• Control Plane and Worker Node Deployment: We handle the installation and configuration of all components, including the API server, etcd, controller manager, kubelet, and kube-proxy. Your cluster is production-ready from day one.
• Networking and CNI Configuration: No need to master Kubernetes networking, we provide a pre-configured networking setup that can seamlessly integrate with your environment if needed.
• Security and RBAC Setup: Security is built-in, with TLS encryption, authentication, and role-based access control (RBAC) mechanisms configured from the start.
• Initial Cluster Validation: We ensure your cluster is functioning correctly with comprehensive testing of node registration, pod scheduling, and API server responsiveness.
• Version Management: Stay current without the hassle. We manage updates and compatibility between Kubernetes components and third-party tools.

• Workload and Application Analysis: You’ll need to decide which workloads to migrate and ensure your applications are suitable for a containerized environment. Don’t worry we also support Virtual Machines for the workloads that can not be containerized.
• Network Policies and Integrations: While we handle baseline networking, configuring specific policies or integrating with your networks requires your input.
• Customizations and Policies: We define the best practices but you can define your needs, and we’ll help implement them.
• Operational Strategy and Team Readiness: While we handle the technical deployment, your team must be ready to take ownership of applications and their ongoing operations.

• Pre-Integrated Monitoring and Observability: Our built-in monitoring with pre-configured alerts and metrics is ready to provide visibility into the cluster and your applications.
• Automated Certificate Management and Ingress Setup: We handle TLS certificate automation and configuration of ingress traffic for secure external access to services.
• Security and Policy Management: We ensure compliance with best practice security policies and Role-based access control (RBAC) from day one.
• Centralized Logging Solutions: Collecting and managing logs is handled automatically without additional setup effort on your part.
• Dynamic Storage Management: Persistent volume provisioning for disk, network or object storage; we ensure seamless storage integration for stateful applications.
• Disaster Recovery and Backups: We take care of the high-availability and disaster recovery of the cluster, including backups of storage and our managed services.
• Optimized Resource Management: We balance the resources needed for tools and workloads, preventing performance bottlenecks and ensuring high efficiency.

• Application-Specific Monitoring Metrics: While general metrics are covered, you’ll need to define specific metrics and alerts tailored to your applications.
• Custom Policies and Rules: If your organization requires unique security policies or governance rules that our self-service can not provide, you’ll need to specify these for us to implement.
• Storage Requirements for Applications: You should identify the storage needs of your applications, such as performance, capacity, and redundancy.
• Advanced Logging Configurations: While logging is provided, configuring application-specific log filters or outputs requires your input.
• Team Alignment and Training: Your team must learn to use the integrated tools to leverage their full capabilities but we’ll help you along the way.

• Proactive Monitoring and Alerts: We manage robust monitoring systems, with alerts to track health, performance, and resource utilization. You don’t need to worry about the cluster.
• Incident Response and Runbooks: Our team handles on-call rotations, responding to incidents 24/7 to minimize downtime and resolve issues promptly, related to the cluster.
• Automated Backups and Disaster Recovery: Our backups of cluster states and persistent data are automated and validated through periodic recovery drills. Recovery processes are tested to ensure rapid restoration in real-world failure scenarios.
• Security and Compliance Oversight: We do continuous vulnerability scanning, patch management, and security audits ensuring the cluster remains secure and compliant.
• Resource and Performance Optimization: Our platform continuously optimizes resource allocation, including autoscaling configurations, to balance performance with cost efficiency.
• Lifecycle Management: Upgrades and patching are handled seamlessly, with rigorous testing to ensure stability before deployment.
• Operational Simplicity: Documentation is centralized and updated to reflect the latest configurations, facilitating better knowledge sharing.

• Application-Level Insights: You define specific application metrics, thresholds, and alerts beyond the standard monitoring setup to tailor observability to your workloads.
• Incident Prioritization: Provide input on business-critical applications and services to ensure incident response aligns with organizational priorities.
• Security Policies and Governance: Define compliance requirements, audit intervals, and custom security policies for your applications that align with your organizational standards.
• Scaling Requirements: Share anticipated growth patterns or special traffic events to adjust scaling and capacity plans accordingly.
• Cost Optimization Goals: Work with us to set targets for cost efficiency, ensuring the cluster operates within your budget constraints while meeting performance needs.

• Dynamic Auto-Scaling Configuration: You can dynamically adjust workloads based on real-time metrics like CPU and memory usage. Or configure automatic adding or removing resources as demand fluctuates, ensuring resource availability without over-provisioning.
• Performance Monitoring and Scaling Optimization: Advanced performance monitoring identifies scaling inefficiencies and helps you fine-tune auto-scaling triggers, ensuring applications, and cluster, scale efficiently.
• Capacity Planning and Forecasting: We conduct detailed analysis to right-size clusters and plan for future capacity requirements.
• Load Testing and Validation: We ensure the scaling mechanisms respond effectively under pressure without causing latency or outages.
• Cost Optimization Strategies: We offer insights in cost on cluster, services and application level allowing you to define better cost strategies.
• Cross-Cluster and Multi-Region Scaling: All clusters are spread over multiple availability zones by default, but for those who need global scale we help you run your workloads across regions.

• Workload Prioritization: Determine which workloads are critical versus non-critical, guiding scaling and cost-management decisions.
• Traffic Patterns and Growth Projections: Share expected traffic trends, peak usage periods, and business growth forecasts to align scaling strategies with your organizational needs.
• Budget Constraints and Cost Goals: Define your cost objectives, enabling you to balance performance with budget requirements effectively.
• Scaling Behavior Insights: Identify application-specific metrics that reflect scaling needs, ensuring configurations align with workload behavior.

• CI/CD Pipelines: We provide a scalable CI/CD environment with pre-configured, reusable templates that empower teams to build robust, automated pipelines for rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Integrated Tooling: Pre-integrated systems, including source control, container registries, and artifact repositories, ensure quick and seamless development workflows.
• Standardized Development Frameworks: Ready-to-use frameworks and tooling for multiple programming languages enable developers to create secure, high-quality software while maintaining flexibility to adapt to unique project needs.
• Onboarding and Support: Comprehensive documentation, step-by-step guides, and expert technical support ensure smooth onboarding and ongoing assistance for development teams.
• Actionable Local Insights: We bridge CI/CD insights to local development environments, empowering developers with real-time feedback to enhance code quality and performance.
• Eliminating “Works on My Machine” Issues: Developers can run pipelines locally, ensuring consistent results across environments and eliminating discrepancies.

• Developer Engagement: Actively involve your developers in training sessions and onboarding workshops to ensure they understand and can fully leverage the platform’s capabilities.
• Adopting the Vision: Embrace the platform as a transformative tool for your organization. Align your processes to maximize the platform’s benefits rather than forcing it to fit existing workflows.
• AI Coding Assistants: Enable developers to integrate their preferred AI-powered coding assistants to enhance productivity and streamline their work.

• On-Demand Environments: Provision isolated testing environments dynamically, allowing services to be tested in realistic conditions without impacting other workflows.
• Code Quality Analysis: Built-in support for linting, code quality checks, and static application security testing (SAST) across multiple programming languages to detect issues early in the development process.
• Contract-Based Testing: Comprehensive support for contract-based testing, including API discovery and validation, ensuring seamless integration between services.
• Pull Request Assistance: AI-powered analysis of code and security in pull requests, providing actionable insights to improve quality and maintain standards.
• Comprehensive Testing Capabilities: Support for integration, smoke, and performance testing, enabling teams to assess application behavior under various scenarios and ensure resilience.

• Test Creation and Validation: Develop and maintain robust test suites to validate the functional and non-functional behavior of services.
• Quality Assurance (QA): Actively perform QA activities to verify that applications meet organizational standards and functional requirements.

• Vulnerability Scanning: Automated scanning of libraries, container images, and other dependencies to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities early.
• Dependency Management: A secure proxy that scans and approves dependencies before use, with automated tracking to prevent unverified libraries from entering your codebase.
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) Support: Attestations at every pipeline stage, ensuring that only trusted containers and artifacts are deployed.
• Security Scoring and Visibility (SSVC): Automatically generate and track security scores to assess the risk of assets and services in your environment.
• Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST): Automated testing of application security to detect and resolve vulnerabilities in running services.
• Centralized SBOM Repository: A unified view of all Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), enabling better visibility and tracking of software components.
• Zero-Trust Architecture: Advanced zero-trust mechanisms that go beyond API tokens, using context-aware checks to secure access and interactions.
• Policy Guardrails: Enforce guardrails to prevent misconfigurations, ensuring that insecure setups are blocked or minimized.
• Runtime Security: Gain insights into the runtime security of services, including file access and container interaction patterns, to detect and prevent breaches.

• Vulnerability Management: Actively assess identified vulnerabilities, prioritize risks, and implement mitigations based on organizational priorities.
• Secure SDLC (SSDLC): Perform threat modeling, adopt secure coding practices, and validate security controls throughout the development lifecycle.
• Security Scoring and Visibility (SSVC): Collaborate with us to track what is online, the type of access in use, and assess whether any vulnerabilities may impact your systems.
• Zero-Trust Implementation: Embrace and implement zero-trust principles in your organization, ensuring policies and processes align with secure access practices.

• Centralized Logging: OpenTelemetry-supported logging, providing a unified view of application and system logs for easy troubleshooting.
• Metrics Collection: Centralized OpenTelemetry-supported metrics, enabling precise monitoring of application performance and resource utilization.
• Alerts and Incident Response: A centralized alerting system with built-in incident management capabilities to ensure rapid response to critical issues.
• Tracing: Centralized OpenTelemetry-supported tracing to analyze service interactions and diagnose bottlenecks.
• Dashboards: Pre-configured dashboards for logs, metrics, and tracing, giving teams an immediate overview of key operational data.
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Gain detailed insights into application performance to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Network Monitoring: Visibility into network traffic patterns to optimize performance and detect anomalies.
• External Validations: Tools to validate website availability and workflows from an external perspective, ensuring services are functioning correctly.
• Real User Monitoring (RUM): Track real user interactions on your websites to better understand behavior and improve user experience.

• Cost Management: Determine the level of logging, metrics, and tracing appropriate for your services, balancing visibility with budget considerations.
• Customized Alerting: While default alerts are provided, teams must define custom alerts suited to their specific needs and take action when triggered.
• Dashboard Customization: Use the provided dashboards as a foundation and enhance them with additional insights tailored to your services.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Leverage the available data to identify areas for improvement, implement optimizations, and ensure service reliability.

 * Unified Portal: A centralized hub that provides visualizations, dashboards, and easy access to information about all organizational services.

• Actionable Insights: Comprehensive insights, both general and project-specific, covering areas such as testing, security and compliance, runtime performance, and costs.

• Shared Services: Ready-to-use common services, including databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), caching (Redis), messaging (RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka), and secrets management (Vault).

• Golden Paths: Predefined, optimized workflows for regular processes, offering best practices and streamlining development tasks.

• A/B Testing: Tools to assess the impact of changes before deploying them globally, ensuring data-driven decision-making.

• Chaos Engineering: Simulate service failures to identify weaknesses and enhance the resilience of your applications.

• Centralized Access Control: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) to manage permissions effectively and securely.

• Self-Service Platform: Designed to enable teams to manage their workflows independently, with our support available when needed.

• AI-Driven Support: AI tools to debug issues, provide insights into service failures, and streamline troubleshooting.

• Embrace Empowerment: Align with the vision and tools of the platform, collaborating with it to achieve your organizational goals rather than resisting change.