Kubernetes

Adopting Kubernetes starts with something more basic: we containerise the stack. Containers are how we run software during development and how we ship it to every environment beyond that, which keeps what a developer runs locally close to what actually goes to production.

How much orchestration a solution needs on top of that varies, and we work across the whole range:

• Self-hosted Kubernetes, where a client needs full control over the cluster or has to run on their own infrastructure.
• Managed Kubernetes, where most of our solutions land. The declarative model and the ecosystem around it, without the burden of operating the control plane ourselves.
• Serverless containers on managed platforms, where a solution does not need a cluster at all and the platform scales containers directly.

A mature managed Kubernetes offering is one of our criteria when assessing European Sovereign Cloud providers, because it is a large part of what keeps workloads portable between them.

Kubernetes is the industry standard for container orchestration and is also offered as such by all main cloud vendors.