What we deliver
The work is broken into visible capabilities, acceptance points, and handoff artifacts.
What changes
Cluster Management
- K3s version upgrades and patch management
- Node pool scaling and optimization
- Embedded etcd backup and recovery
- Certificate rotation and management
Signal quality
Monitoring & Alerting
- Cluster health monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana
- Pod and node resource utilization tracking
- Application-level metrics and SLIs
- Intelligent alerting with PagerDuty/OpsGenie integration
What changes
Security
- RBAC configuration and audit
- Network policy management
- Pod security standards enforcement
- Image vulnerability scanning
- Secrets management with Vault or Sealed Secrets
What changes
Troubleshooting
- Pod scheduling and resource issues
- Networking and DNS resolution problems
- Storage and persistent volume issues
- Ingress and load balancer configuration
- Application deployment failures