Cloud & Infrastructure · Kubernetes & Container Management
Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, networking and lifecycle management of containerized applications across a cluster of nodes. Evolvice operates production Kubernetes clusters for DACH and KSA enterprises, covering cluster hardening, upgrade management, workload scaling and incident response under defined SLAs.
Overview
Most internal teams stand up a Kubernetes cluster successfully but under-invest in ongoing operations: node pools drift out of sync with upstream versions, resource requests are misconfigured, and RBAC policies grow permissive over time. We operate clusters as a governed platform: version management, autoscaling tuning, network policy enforcement and continuous security scanning, measured against uptime and incident response SLAs.
Diagnostic
Patterns we repeatedly find when taking over an existing Kubernetes estate.
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Structure
The value of a Kubernetes platform is not the initial cluster build but the ongoing enforcement of resource governance, upgrade currency and security policy as workloads and node pools evolve. Most production incidents in Kubernetes trace back to configuration drift and unmanaged autoscaling, not application defects.
We structure operations around the CNCF-defined Kubernetes lifecycle model, with staged upgrades, policy-as-code enforcement and measurable capacity reviews.
Definition
Kubernetes Cluster Lifecycle Management is the ongoing practice of provisioning, upgrading, scaling and decommissioning cluster nodes and control plane components in a controlled, versioned manner to maintain compatibility, security and availability over time.
Delivery model
A repeatable five-step engagement we run for every Kubernetes estate we take over.
Assessment of cluster version, node pool configuration, RBAC policies, resource requests/limits and workload manifests, delivered within 10 working days.
Least-privilege RBAC, network policies, pod security standards and admission control with image scanning enforced across namespaces.
Horizontal and vertical pod autoscaling configured against measured load patterns, resource quotas set per namespace.
Version upgrade process with pre-production compatibility testing, canary rollout and rollback procedures for control plane and node pools.
Recurring report on cluster health, resource utilization, incident history and capacity forecast, with agreed remediation actions.
Compliance
How our delivery model maps to the four reference frameworks German enterprises are audited against.
| Control | ISO 27001 | NIS2 | BSI-Grundschutz | GDPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) | A.5.15 / A.8.2 | Art. 21(2)(i) | OPS.2.2 | Art. 32(1)(a) |
| Container Image Vulnerability Scanning | A.8.8 | Art. 21(2)(e) | OPS.1.1.3 | Art. 32(1)(b) |
| Cluster Logging & Audit Trail | A.8.15 / A.8.16 | Art. 21(2)(b) | DER.1 | Art. 33 |
| Managed Platform Provider Oversight | A.5.19 / A.5.23 | Art. 21(2)(d) | OPS.2.2 | Art. 28 |
| Backup of Persistent Volumes & Etcd State | A.8.13 | Art. 21(2)(c) | CON.3 | Art. 32(1)(c) |
Questions & Answers
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Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform, originally developed by Google, that automates the deployment, scaling, networking and lifecycle management of containerized applications across a cluster of nodes.
In the cluster
Azure and AWS estates operated against measurable reliability and unit-cost targets.
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