Kubernetes without the complexity
We design, deploy, and manage your K3s Kubernetes infrastructure end-to-end. Production-grade clusters with monitoring, security, and GitOps—without hiring a platform team.
Powered by K3s — lightweight, CNCF-certified Kubernetes. From first cluster to multi-region.
Production-ready from day one
HA control planes, autoscaling, monitoring, and alerting. Not a workshop cluster—a platform your team can ship on.
Full-stack platform engineering
Ingress, TLS, DNS, logging, metrics, secrets management, and CI/CD integration. The whole stack, not just the cluster.
Ongoing operations included
Upgrades, patching, incident response, and capacity planning. We run it so you don't have to.
Key Features
Everything you need for enterprise-grade container management.
Security
- Network policies & segmentation
- Pod security standards
- Secrets encryption at rest
- RBAC configuration
- Regular security patching
Reliability
- HA control plane
- Multi-AZ deployments
- Automated failover
- Disaster recovery
- 99.9% uptime SLA
Observability
- Prometheus metrics
- Grafana dashboards
- Centralized logging
- Distributed tracing
- Alerting & notifications
Operations
- GitOps deployments
- Automated upgrades
- Backup & restore
- Cost optimization
- 24/7 SRE support
Getting Started
Easy-to-use CLI and APIs for managing your infrastructure.
Create a production-ready Kubernetes cluster.
# Create a new managed clusterassistance k8s create cluster \ --name production \ --region eu-central-1 \ --nodes 3 \ --node-size m5.xlarge# → Provisioning control plane...# → Configuring node pools...# → Installing CNI and addons...# → Setting up monitoring...# ✓ Cluster ready in 4m 32s# Get cluster credentialsassistance k8s get-credentials productionWhat you can build
Scale effortlessly from experimentation to production.
Production Workloads
Run mission-critical applications with HA, auto-scaling, and zero-downtime deployments.
- High availability setup
- Automatic scaling
- Zero-downtime updates
- Disaster recovery
Microservices Platform
Build and operate microservices with service mesh, observability, and GitOps.
- Service discovery
- Load balancing
- Circuit breaking
- Distributed tracing
Stateful Applications
Run databases and stateful workloads with persistent storage and backup.
- Persistent volumes
- Automated backups
- High IOPS storage
- Cross-AZ replication
Multi-Region Deployments
Deploy globally with multi-cluster management and traffic routing.
- Global load balancing
- Regional failover
- Data locality
- Edge deployments
Kubernetes is powerful but operationally demanding. We use K3s — a lightweight, CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution — as the foundation for all our managed clusters. K3s delivers full Kubernetes compatibility in a single binary with a minimal footprint, making clusters faster to provision, easier to upgrade, and more resource-efficient. We take the infrastructure burden off your team—from initial cluster design through ongoing management—so you get the benefits of Kubernetes without the complexity tax.
The problem
Adopting Kubernetes typically means:
- Steep learning curve — RBAC, networking, storage, and scheduling are complex even for experienced engineers
- Platform engineering overhead — Someone has to manage upgrades, monitoring, security, and tooling
- Reliability risk — Misconfigured clusters cause outages that are hard to debug
- Cost overruns — Over-provisioned nodes, unused resources, and no autoscaling eat your cloud budget
Our solution
We provide fully managed Kubernetes as a service. Your developers interact with Kubernetes as a platform; we handle everything underneath.
What's included
| Layer | What we manage |
|---|---|
| Cluster | K3s control plane HA, node pools, autoscaling, upgrades, embedded etcd backups |
| Networking | Flannel CNI, Traefik ingress, TLS certificates, DNS, network policies |
| Security | RBAC, pod security standards, image scanning, secrets management |
| Observability | Prometheus, Grafana dashboards, log aggregation, alerting |
| CI/CD | GitOps with Argo CD or Flux, deployment pipelines, rollback |
| Storage | Persistent volumes, backup policies, storage class optimization |
How it works
- Assess — We understand your workloads, team size, and requirements
- Design — Architecture document with cluster topology, networking, and tooling choices
- Deploy — K3s clusters provisioned via Infrastructure as Code (Ansible + Helm) on your infrastructure
- Operate — Ongoing management with SLA-backed response times
- Evolve — Monthly reviews to tune, optimize, and plan for growth
Why K3s?
K3s is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution created by Rancher (now SUSE) and certified by the CNCF. It packages the entire Kubernetes control plane into a single binary under 100MB.
| Advantage | Detail |
|---|---|
| Lightweight | Single binary, under 100MB, runs on 512MB RAM |
| Fast provisioning | Clusters ready in seconds, not minutes |
| CNCF certified | Full Kubernetes API compatibility — existing manifests, Helm charts, and tools work unchanged |
| Built-in components | Traefik ingress, Flannel CNI, CoreDNS, local-path storage included out of the box |
| Easy upgrades | Single-binary updates simplify patching and version management |
| ARM support | Native ARM64 and ARMv7 for edge and mixed-architecture deployments |
Deployment options
Cloud VMs
K3s deployed on cloud VMs (AWS EC2, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, or any provider). Lightweight overhead means smaller instances and lower cloud costs compared to managed Kubernetes services.
Bare metal / on-premises
K3s on bare metal servers or on-premises VMs. Full control over the infrastructure with minimal resource overhead.
Edge and IoT
K3s clusters on ARM devices, edge nodes, or resource-constrained hardware. See Managed K3s for Edge for details.
Multi-cluster
Multiple K3s clusters across regions or environments with consistent tooling and GitOps-based management.
Support tiers
| Feature | Standard | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Response time | 4 hours | 1 hour |
| Coverage | 8x5 | 24/7 |
| Cluster reviews | Quarterly | Monthly |
| Dedicated engineer | Shared | Dedicated |
| Chaos engineering | — | Included |
| Architecture reviews | Annual | Quarterly |
Key benefits
- Ship faster — Developers deploy via
git push, not Kubernetes YAML - Reduce risk — Battle-tested K3s configurations, automated upgrades, incident response
- Lower costs — K3s minimal footprint means smaller VMs and less resource overhead
- Stay secure — Defense-in-depth with RBAC, network policies, and image scanning
- Scale confidently — From one K3s cluster to multi-region with the same operational model
- No vendor lock-in — K3s runs anywhere: cloud VMs, bare metal, edge devices
Who it's for
- Startups moving from PaaS (Heroku, Render) to Kubernetes
- Companies wanting Kubernetes without the overhead of EKS/GKE/AKS
- Teams without dedicated platform engineers
- Organizations running on cloud VMs, bare metal, or edge infrastructure
- Teams needing multi-cluster or multi-region Kubernetes
Getting started
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How it works
Assess
We understand your workloads, team size, compliance needs, and growth plans.
Design
Architecture document with cluster topology, networking, security, and tooling choices.
Deploy
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform + Helm) deployed to your cloud account with GitOps.
Operate
Ongoing management with SLA-backed response times, upgrades, and incident response.
Evolve
Monthly reviews to tune performance, optimize costs, and plan for growth.
Ready to get started?
Get a quote or talk to our team.
How we compare
| Feature | DIY / In-House | Us | Enterprise Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production-grade setup | Months of work | 1-2 weeks | 2-4 weeks |
| Ongoing operations | Your team | We handle it | Vendor handles it |
| Customization | |||
| GitOps included | DIY | ||
| Observability stack | DIY | Included | Extra cost |
| Monthly cost | €10-20K salary | €3-8K | €15-30K |
| Vendor lock-in |
Pricing
No long-term contracts. for custom arrangements.
Starter
Teams running their first production K8s cluster.
- 1 production cluster
- HA control plane
- Basic monitoring & alerting
- Email support
- GitOps deployment
- Multi-cluster management
- Custom platform engineering
Professional
Production workloads needing full-stack platform engineering.
- Up to 3 clusters
- HA control plane + autoscaling
- Full observability stack
- Slack + email support
- GitOps deployment
- Multi-cluster management
- Custom platform engineering
Enterprise
Critical workloads at scale across multiple regions.
- Unlimited clusters
- HA + multi-region
- Full observability + custom dashboards
- Dedicated Slack + phone
- GitOps + advanced deployment strategies
- Multi-cluster + federation
- Custom platform engineering
What our clients say
“We went from "nobody wants to touch Kubernetes" to "everything just works" in under a month.”
“Their Kubernetes platform freed us from hiring a dedicated platform team. The savings alone justify the service.”
Technologies we work with
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