Kubernetes
Cluster design, workload migration, GitOps, upgrades, and day-two operations.
Cloud infrastructure consulting · Garner, North Carolina
Make your infrastructure easier to run.
Harborvane works with engineering teams to fix unreliable delivery, bring cloud costs under control, and build platforms they can operate after the engagement ends.
Capabilities
Work that removes operational drag
Bring Harborvane in when releases are fragile, infrastructure has outgrown the team, or a migration needs experienced hands.
Kubernetes consulting
Cloud infrastructure
Secure AWS and GCP foundations managed with reviewable infrastructure as code.
Delivery automation
Build, test, and deployment pipelines that make releases routine and recoverable.
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces, and alerts designed around decisions your team must make.
DevSecOps
Security checks, secrets handling, and policy enforcement built into delivery.
Migration and modernization
Phased moves from legacy systems with rollback plans and limited disruption.
Selected work
Operational problems. Measurable results.
Platform operations
Standardizing Kubernetes operations across AWS and Google Cloud.
Operating Kubernetes across multiple clouds and regions creates an ongoing coordination problem. Infrastructure changes, cluster upgrades, and workload operations need to remain manageable across development and production, with teams supporting the same platform in different parts of the world.
The work covered EKS and GKE environments across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Terraform and GitOps established a consistent approach to infrastructure changes, while a regular upgrade schedule made platform maintenance part of normal operations. The scope also included improving how event-streaming workloads were operated within the platform.
The result was a more consistent foundation for running a global Kubernetes environment: standardized infrastructure, an established upgrade path, and clearer operating practices. Together, these changes made the platform easier to operate across regions and gave teams a common approach to ongoing maintenance.
Delivery controls
Making infrastructure policy part of everyday delivery.
Infrastructure standards need to hold up as teams make changes. When configuration and policy problems reach production, resolving them becomes an operational task. Checking changes during delivery gives engineers a chance to address those problems while the work is still in review.
Policy-as-code checks were embedded in Terraform CI/CD so infrastructure changes could be evaluated before deployment. Dependency automation and semantic releases supported a more repeatable delivery process, alongside a predictable Kubernetes upgrade schedule. The work connected policy enforcement with the routines teams used to ship and maintain their systems.
Teams could identify configuration and policy problems earlier, with checks built into the delivery path. The resulting approach brought infrastructure controls, dependency maintenance, and releases into a consistent workflow, making those responsibilities part of regular engineering work.
Modernization
Modernizing enterprise search and saving more than $2 million a year.
An enterprise search service depended on a legacy appliance that was no longer supported. Continuing to operate it carried ongoing risk, while the cost of the existing platform created a clear business reason to invest in a replacement.
The work covered the design and delivery of a replacement search platform, followed by the migration away from the legacy appliance. That scope took the modernization through implementation: the organization moved its search service onto a supported platform and removed its dependence on the unsupported system.
The completed replacement reduced operational risk and produced more than $2 million in annual savings. It addressed both sides of the business case for modernization: a supported foundation for an existing service and a substantial reduction in the cost of running it.
How we work
Senior technical help, sized to the problem
You get direct access to the people doing the work. Decisions are written down, changes are made in your systems, and knowledge stays with your team.
Assessment
A focused review of reliability, security, cost, or delivery. You receive findings in priority order and a plan your team can use.
Defined project
A scoped build or migration with agreed deliverables, checkpoints, documentation, and handover.
Embedded support
Hands-on engineering alongside your team for sustained platform work or a temporary capability gap.
Technical advisory
Architecture reviews and decision support for leaders who need experienced input without a delivery team.
A useful first conversation
Bring the messy version.
You do not need a polished brief. Tell us what keeps breaking, what costs too much, or what the team cannot get shipped. We will help define the next sensible step.
Contact
Talk through your infrastructure problem.
Book a call directly or send a short note. Include the system involved, the current constraint, and any deadline that matters.
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