Tier 1 · Telecom and hybrid infrastructure
Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift architecture
We design, upgrade and operate production clusters on bare-metal and VMware. Workload admission, telecom network paths and GitOps lifecycle controls are designed and tested together, with restricted-v2 validation on supported OpenShift application workloads.
2-week Assessment Sprint, $14,500 fixed · 100% credited toward an annual retainer or managed agreement signed within 30 days
Clusters that work in the lab fail when enterprise controls or telecom traffic arrive: images require root, upgrades encounter incompatible CRDs, flat pod networks fail segmentation reviews, and manual oc/kubectl changes drift between staging and production. Storage recovery and external identity, DNS and registry dependencies often remain untested until the first incident.
Refactor container images, Helm charts and Kustomize overlays for arbitrary non-root UIDs, RuntimeDefault seccomp and dropped capabilities. Validate OpenShift SCC admission and add read-only root filesystems where applications support them. Review vendor-required Operator and infrastructure privilege exceptions separately.
Engineer Multus secondary interfaces, SR-IOV, IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack and MetalLB/BGP where supported by the distribution and hardware. Define ingress/egress NetworkPolicy, service-mesh mTLS and traffic-path acceptance checks around the actual isolation and latency requirements.
Manage bare-metal IPI/UPI and vSphere clusters through reviewed GitOps changes. Validate the supported update graph, EUS transitions, deprecated APIs, Operator compatibility, disruption budgets and drain behavior; rehearse upgrades and etcd recovery for the installed release.
Integrate ODF/Ceph or supported vSAN CSI storage classes, Prometheus/Thanos metrics and Loki/Vector log pipelines. Test persistence, storage expansion, restore behavior, alert delivery and audit-log routing with the application owners.
restricted-v2 does not require a read-only root filesystem by itself. Operators may need reviewed vendor-supported permissions. Upgrade availability depends on workload redundancy, application behavior and the supported platform path.
Separate management, workload migration and hybrid routing paths, joined by validated platform dependencies.
Telecom management
Virtualization & container platform
Hybrid storage & virtualization
Southbound element mediation is validated per installed ENM and node software release. MTV warm migrations replicate active blocks in the background and execute final cutover inside a scheduled window with verified ESXi fallback.
Download Mermaid source (.mmd)You keep the delivered code, manifests, diagrams, runbooks and validation evidence in your repositories. We agree the systems, acceptance criteria and access prerequisites in the SOW.
Versioned machine configuration, ingress controllers, storage classes, namespaces and RBAC bindings with environment-specific GitOps overlays.
Refactored Helm/Kustomize artifacts with restricted-v2 test evidence for applicable workloads and a separate register of approved exceptions.
Documented and tested ingress/egress rules, secondary networks, IP assignments and service-mesh mTLS policies included in the scope.
API-deprecation scans, update prerequisites, disruption checks, validated etcd recovery procedures and application-data restore test records.
Control-plane sizing, ingress and egress segmentation and the ODF storage layout as Mermaid source in your repository.
Least-privilege OIDC group bindings, namespace quotas and LimitRanges, so tenants run under project-admin without cluster-admin exceptions.
What the $14,500 sprint covers for this service. Access stays read-only throughout, and you keep the output whether or not you continue.
Days 1–3
Read-only review of cluster versions, Operators, SCC assignments, anyuid and privileged exceptions, network attachments and storage classes.
Days 4–6
Workloads that cannot run under restricted-v2, Multus/SR-IOV and IPAM conflicts, and upgrade blockers such as PodDisruptionBudgets and deprecated APIs.
Days 7–9
Cluster reference architecture in Mermaid (.mmd) source, the workload remediation order and the upgrade and recovery rehearsal plan.
Day 10
Findings, the policy and RBAC changes required and a fixed-scope backlog for your team or the paired principal pod.
We migrate and support telecom management systems and hybrid infrastructure, automate how workloads are validated and shipped, and build the portals and network API integrations that expose those platforms to your teams and customers.
An upgrade that stalls mid-drain, or a workload that cannot recover its data, costs more than the platform saved. Readiness has to be proven for the cluster and for each application separately.
Best for
A cluster can be healthy while a workload fails admission, cannot pull an image or cannot recover its data. We check platform readiness and application behavior separately, including external identity, DNS and storage dependencies.
Bring to the review
Distribution and release, cluster layout, registry connectivity, storage classes and workload requirements.
Record platform and Operator versions, registry access, identity, networking and storage prerequisites. Validate workload manifests against the required SCC and namespace permissions, then test ingress, persistence and the approved deployment path.
Distribution and release, cluster layout and node roles, registry and image sources, identity provider, storage classes and CSI drivers, the Operator inventory, and a verified backup procedure for etcd and persistent data.
Investigate cluster and workload faults with platform and application owners. Plan upgrade checks and recovery tests for cluster state, persistent data and external services, using the procedures for the installed release.
Cluster readiness checklist, workload admission results, versioned configuration and separate platform and application recovery records.
Identify platform, application and infrastructure owners. Confirm access, vendor subscriptions, change approval and who validates each workload and its data recovery.
Support coverage
Explore a sample service scope. We agree your interfaces, permissions and acceptance criteria before delivery; use the engagement design for deployment.
Use our sample checklists to scope work and review deliverables. Adapt them to your environment. They are illustrative, not customer results, vendor-certified procedures or executable production instructions.
Illustrative expected result
Kubernetes / OpenShift readiness checklist
Compare platform ownership, Operator support and application recovery requirements when choosing a Kubernetes distribution.
Planning considerations for Red Hat OpenShift EUS updates: Operator compatibility, worker-pool pauses and recovery prerequisites.
Planning a VMware-to-Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization migration: inventory, target requirements, pilot waves and cutover recovery.
