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Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
STP builds and operates production Kubernetes platforms (cluster architecture, networking, storage, ingress, observability and golden paths) so your developers can deploy independently without each team reinventing the same infrastructure.
Overview
Kubernetes is straightforward to install and genuinely difficult to run well. The gap between a working cluster and a production platform is where most teams lose a year: multi-tenancy, persistent storage, ingress and certificates, secrets, upgrade strategy, resource governance, and observability that actually explains failures.
We build the platform layer that sits between Kubernetes and your developers: opinionated defaults, golden paths for common cases, and guardrails that make the safe thing the easy thing. A developer should be able to ship a service without needing to understand admission controllers.
We build cloud-native and cloud-agnostic, on public cloud or on your own private cloud, with the same platform contract either way.
What is included
- Cluster architecture: sizing, topology, node pools, failure domains
- Container networking and network policy design
- Persistent storage and storage class configuration
- Ingress, load balancing and certificate automation
- Multi-tenancy, namespaces, quotas and RBAC
- Secrets management and external secret integration
- GitOps delivery pipelines
- Observability: metrics, logs, traces and useful alerting
- Autoscaling: workload and cluster
- Upgrade strategy and lifecycle management
- Internal developer platform and golden path definition
- Runbooks and on-call handover, or ongoing operation by STP
What you get out of it
- Developers deploying without filing infrastructure tickets
- Clusters that survive an upgrade without a weekend outage
- Failures that are diagnosable because observability was designed in
Technologies we deliver it with
Named to describe what we work in. Not a claim of partnership, endorsement or certification.
Questions
- Do we need Kubernetes at all?
- Often not. If you run a handful of services with stable load, Kubernetes adds operational complexity you will pay for permanently. It earns its cost when you have many services, many teams deploying independently, or genuinely variable load. We will tell you if a simpler platform is the right answer.
- Can you operate the platform for us after building it?
- Yes. We can hand over with runbooks and training, operate it as a managed service, or embed alongside your team for a defined period and then withdraw. The engagement model is your choice.
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