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Improved Reliability for Your K8s Setup
Kubernetes helps improve reliability by default. However, even with its built-in self-healing capabilities, expert intervention is critical to adjust and fine-tune your Kubernetes clusters for reliable operations.
Our certified Kubernetes experts handle all the complex operational tasks, such as deployments, scaling, monitoring, security patching, and more. With our improved reliability service, your apps will stay secure and available without any operational burden on your teams.
When Investing in Kubernetes Reliability Pays Off
You run mission-critical apps and want to minimize downtime
Downtime, even for brief periods, can be incredibly costly for a business. When your Kubernetes clusters go down, your websites, web apps, mobile apps, or other customer-facing services are offline and inaccessible.
Customers expect reliable services they can depend on around the clock. If they consistently can't access your offerings, they'll quickly lose patience and take their business elsewhere to competitors who can deliver on reliability.
You have stringent uptime requirements
Industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce can’t tolerate unreliable systems or downtime due to strict compliance requirements.
For example, financial firms require maximum uptime and data integrity to avoid missed transactions, compliance violations, and hefty penalties. In healthcare, the continuous availability of electronic records is essential for proper patient care when lives are at stake. And e-commerce businesses rely on uninterrupted shopping experiences 24/7, as even brief downtime leads to abandoned carts and permanently lost sales.
You have rapid traffic fluctuations
Customer demand often fluctuates based on promotions, new product launches, seasonal trends, or other events. During these peaks, application traffic can surge to levels that severely tax your Kubernetes infrastructure. If your clusters can't reliably scale resources up, you risk outages.
You have a global user base
If your Kubernetes applications serve a global user base, you need regionalized clusters deployed across multiple geographic zones. This allows the applications to run close to each major user base to minimize latency. However, these regionalized Kubernetes clusters must stay reliably synchronized and quickly failover to backup regions if an outage occurs in one location.
Start Optimizing Kubernetes with IT Outposts
Autoscaling configurations
Traffic spikes put immense strain on unprepared infrastructure. A sudden influx of users can quickly overwhelm existing resources if you lack proper scaling measures in place.
While Kubernetes offers autoscaling features, the default settings are often insufficient. The out-of-the-box configurations can’t account for variations in application architectures, performance profiles, cost constraints, and traffic patterns across different business domains.
Our role is to analyze your application demands and requirements. We then tune the complex web of autoscaling levers, policies, and trigger conditions to create a high-performing scaling setup and maintain high availability during traffic spikes without over-provisioning.
Kubernetes monitoring and alerting
Our engineers use cloud-native services and open-source tools like Prometheus and Grafana to implement full-stack Kubernetes monitoring. Metrics are collected across all layers — infrastructure, control plane, nodes, workloads, and applications.
Our custom dashboards provide visibility into cluster status, resource utilization, pod lifecycles, scheduler/controller operations, and more. We also configure intelligent alerting rules based on your specific SLOs to proactively notify teams about any operational, performance, or availability issues.
Release coordination
Modern applications rarely exist in a vacuum. They often depend on external systems like databases and caching layers. Updating just the Kubernetes deployment without considering these dependencies can impact reliability.
IT Outposts carefully coordinates Kubernetes deployments with other dependencies, like database updates or configuration changes, to ensure improved reliability.
Security hardening
We implement rigorous role-based access control policies using the principle of least privilege.
All application secrets, credentials, and certificates get securely stored and distributed using proven key management and vault solutions.
These security practices, combined with Kubernetes’ immutable control plane model, allow us to strengthen your clusters’ security defenses. As a result, you mitigate Kubernetes reliability risks from misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and potential attacks.
Custom health checks
While Kubernetes provides liveness/readiness probes by default, these only validate if containers are actually running. For improved reliability, we build custom health checks that verify positive functional scenarios from the end-user’s perspective.
These functional health checks catch issues that standard liveness probes can miss, such as startup issues, partial failures, processing delays, and more. They prevent situations where pods may be “running” but provide degraded service and help increase stability and reliability for Kubernetes.
Highly Reliable K8s Awaits
No more downtime disasters
When you trust us with your Kubernetes environments, you get highly available, self-healing infrastructure you can depend on day and night. Your customers enjoy seamless experiences while you focus on more strategic business activities.
Accelerated innovation cycles
With our improved reliability service, your teams can release new customer-delighting features and experiences into production as frequently as you'd like. We'll ensure your Kubernetes clusters are ready to handle each new deployment without hiccups. Continuous iteration will become the new norm.
Cloud costs under control
Our expertise in Kubernetes autoscaling ensures your clusters operate in a cost-efficient, optimized state. Resources scale up seamlessly to meet high availability needs during demanding periods. But we also prevent overprovisioning and idle spending when traffic is low. With our cost optimization approach, you can maximize your cloud budgets without sacrificing resilience.
Bullet-proof security posture
We lock down your Kubernetes environments through multiple security layers — access rules, network restrictions, process constraints, and automated updates. Your critical applications and intellectual property stay secure, so you can rest easy.
Our Path to Kubernetes Reliability
Discovery
First, we need to understand your business goals and operational requirements. The discovery stage allows us to gain full visibility into your current Kubernetes environment, deployment processes, observability practices, and any existing reliability gaps or pain points.
Analysis
Our engineers then review your Kubernetes configurations, codebases, and metrics. We identify potential Kubernetes reliability risks and areas for improvement.
Strategy
Based on the analysis, our team designs a custom reliability strategy tailored to your Kubernetes needs. Our recommendations include optimized deployment methods, health-checking approaches, self-healing policies, security hardening, and robust monitoring and alerting.
Implementation
With the strategy defined, we implement reliability improvements and best practices across your Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines. This involves hands-on configuration updates, security lockdowns, instrumentation additions, and automation workflows.
Validation
Before rolling out the updated Kubernetes environments to production, our team purposely creates potential issues and failures through practices like fault injection testing. This allows us to verify that all the new resilience features we implemented will actually work as intended when real problems arise in the production systems.
Optimization
After we set up the system, we continuously monitor and adjust the reliability controls, policies, and thresholds. As your application demands and traffic change over time, we make updates to ensure maximum uptime.
Knowledge transfer
In parallel, we provide comprehensive knowledge transfer so your teams can own and sustain the improved reliability practices long-term.
Unlock Maximum Uptime and Cost-Efficiency
Spend less time fixing issues and more time innovating with IT Outposts as your Kubernetes reliability partner. We'll handle the hard work, freeing up your skilled teams to focus on building great products that make customers happy and grow your business. Achieve advanced reliability configuration in Kubernetes — schedule a consultation!
Our Clients’ Feedback
Petr Kirillov
CTO, C Teleport
“They're great experts that we can trust! Simple and complex solutions were discussed and deployed on time. Another aspect that excited us the most is the fast incident response time. Overall, they’re experienced engineers with great project management.”
Egor Prihodko
CEO, OneDayBundle
"Cooperation with IT Outposts has revolutionized our company. We needed to obtain certification with Amazon's strict security and operational guidelines so we could connect our services with the Amazon marketplace. I'm excited to say we now have access to Amazon's Selling Partner API."
Benjamin Theobald
COO, Maxxer
“The deliverables of our partnership with IT Outposts are outstanding. Their experts devised the most convenient CI/CD flow, taking into account the unique requirements of more than 30 microservices. IT Outposts has been able to minimize the human factor and the risks associated with production issues, which is yet another fantastic result.”
Konstantin Suhinin
Delivery Director, Dinarys Gmbh
“IT Outposts created a comprehensive monitoring dashboard for our development team, made sure the project scales smoothly, and performed high availability optimization. The communication and workflow were also excellent.”
Philipp Nacht
CTO, Financial Services Company
“IT Outpost approached our project with great responsibility. Their team has performed as promised, on time. They created a migration plan and secured the transfer of infrastructure. Correctly calculated the migration budget in accordance with our specifications.”
Alexander Konovalov
Founder, CEO, Vidby AG
“IT Outposts and our core project team members hit it off right from the start. The cooperation is successful! The most impressive factor is their degree of accountability and dedication to the project's goals. Their experts provide superior DevOps consulting on critical architectural solutions and consistently strive to find the best approach to any issue.”
Igor Churilov
BDM, Steelkiwi Inc.
“We were able to automate and streamline the product deployment process with the assistance of IT Outposts professionals. They thoroughly examined the product and always offered the most beneficial solutions. Also, I would like to admit the high level of communication and prompt handling of any requests.”
Daniel Scott
CTO, Beta Trader
"We were able to build a strong rapport with the IT Outpost team; they operated in a proactive mode and so gave excellent communication, which streamlined our workflows. Our cooperation has been absolutely successful.”
Kostyantyn Tolstopyat
CEO, AKMCreator
“We have achieved deployment automation, and the IT Outpost team has created a comprehensive plan to reduce DevOps and developers’ time by 30 to 50% in the future. Thanks to the infrastructure agility, project development will progress more quickly.”
Philipp Werner
Director, Robotics Lab
“The IT Outposts specialists successfully optimized an internal project while delivering top-notch performance for the existing users and removing the dev team headaches. As a result, the internal infrastructure budget was cut by 40%, routine tasks were automated from start to finish, and SLA was put in place with thorough project monitoring.”
Oleksandr Popov
CEO, Mriyar
“IT Outposts experts have successfully adjusted the detailed monitoring of over 35 servers and 7 services, allowing them to clearly define an infrastructure and underlying process optimization plan. It’s anticipated that the infrastructure budget will be optimized by about 40%.”
Chloe Morrisonn
Chief Product Owner, RECUR
“What stands out the most is their extensive background, responsibility, and perfectly established workflow. They are always in touch and ready to address any problems that may come up. IT Outposts team has in-depth expertise in all DevOps aspects, providing high-level consulting regarding key software architecture solutions.”
Dmytro Dobrytskyi
CEO, Mind Studios
“IT Outposts helped us optimize and scale our software infrastructure. They also provided thorough technical documentation along with guidance on how to maintain our new infrastructure in the future. Their team was highly accessible throughout our collaboration and promptly and professionally handled all of our questions.”
Professional Help for Optimized Kubernetes Reliability
With our certified team of professionals, you get peace of mind knowing your mission-critical containerized applications work smoothly around the clock.
Our proven processes provide a foundation for your containerized ecosystem’s success. From zero-downtime deployment strategies and comprehensive observability to security hardening and cost optimization, we check all the boxes.
FAQ
What is reliability in Kubernetes?
Reliability in Kubernetes means keeping your applications running smoothly on the Kubernetes clusters without any downtime or disruptions.
How reliable is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes itself is a highly reliable and proven platform when configured correctly. However, to ensure improved reliability for your applications, you need additional setup, Kubernetes monitoring, and optimizations done by professionals.
How do I optimize Kubernetes for reliability and cost efficiency?
To get the best reliability and cost efficiency from Kubernetes, you need to fine-tune resource limits, automatic scaling policies, and observability tools.
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