Kubernetes

Kubernetes (K8s) is the de facto standard for container orchestration, powering some of the world’s largest distributed systems. Alchemilla Ventures provides expert Kubernetes services — from cluster design to 24/7 management — for enterprises.

Mastering Kubernetes Complexity

While Kubernetes offers unprecedented flexibility and scalability, its operational complexity can overwhelm teams. Our Certified Kubernetes Administrators (CKAs) and Certified Kubernetes Security Specialists (CKSs) bring battle-tested expertise to simplify your Kubernetes journey.

Our Kubernetes Services

• Cluster Architecture & Design: We design Kubernetes clusters tailored to your workloads — single-tenant or multi-tenant, development or production, on-premise or cloud-managed (EKS, AKS, GKE). Our designs consider networking (CNI choice), storage (CSI drivers), security (Pod Security Standards), and observability from day one.

• Managed Kubernetes Deployments: We deploy and configure production-grade clusters on your chosen platform. For clients wanting managed services, we recommend AKS or EKS. For those requiring on-premise control, we deploy Rancher-managed RKE2 or vanilla Kubeadm clusters in your data centre.

• GitOps & CI/CD Integration: Implement GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or Flux CD, ensuring all cluster state is version-controlled and auditable. We integrate with your existing CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for automated deployments to Kubernetes.

• Service Mesh Implementation: Deploy Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium service mesh for advanced traffic management, mTLS encryption, and distributed tracing. Essential for microservice architectures serving users with complex routing requirements.

• Observability & Monitoring: Full-stack observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo. We implement OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, set up alerts with Alertmanager, and build custom dashboards for your SRE teams.

• Security Hardening: CIS benchmark compliance, Pod Security Admission, network policies, OPA/Gatekeeper policy enforcement, secret management with HashiCorp Vault or Sealed Secrets, and container image scanning with Trivy or Aqua.

• Disaster Recovery & Backup: Velero-based backup and restore for cluster state and persistent volumes. Multi-region and multi-cluster failover strategies for business continuity across global regions.

Kubernetes in the the countryn Context

Scenario	Our Solution
E-commerce peak loads	Horizontal Pod Autoscaler + KEDA for event-driven scaling during the countryn festive sales
Data localisation	Node affinity rules ensuring pods run on in-region nodes
Cost optimisation	Spot/preemptible instances for non-critical workloads, bin-packing with Karpenter
Compliance	Network policies + mTLS for RBI, IRDAI, and PCI DSS compliance
Edge deployment	K3s or MicroK8s for edge locations

Our Kubernetes Support Tiers

1. Advisory: Architecture reviews, best practices documentation, and periodic health checks. Ideal for teams with existing Kubernetes expertise who need expert validation.

2. Co-Managed: We share operational responsibility with your team. Our engineers handle complex upgrades, troubleshooting, and incident response while your team manages day-to-day operations.

3. Fully Managed: Complete cluster management — provisioning, scaling, security patching, monitoring, and 24/7 on-call support. Your team focuses on application development; we handle everything else.

Technologies We Work With

• Distributions: EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher RKE2, K3s, OpenShift
• Networking: Cilium, Calico, Flannel, AWS VPC CNI
• Ingress: NGINX Ingress, Traefik, Kong, Istio Gateway, Emissary
• Storage: Longhorn, OpenEBS, Portworx, cloud-native CSI drivers
• GitOps: ArgoCD, Flux CD, Helm, Kustomize
• Policy: OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, Trivy, Falco

From IT corridor to the entire deployments, our Kubernetes expertise ensures your container platform is production-ready, secure, and cost-efficient. Contact us for a cluster architecture review.