Kubernetes without the tears: a sane starter platform

You don't need a 12-person platform team to run Kubernetes well. Here's the minimum viable setup we ship to startups.

Most teams adopt Kubernetes too early or too late. Here's the lean setup we ship when a team is ready.

• **Managed control plane.** EKS, GKE, AKS. Don't run your own.
• **GitOps from day one.** ArgoCD or Flux. Cluster state lives in git.
• **Autoscaling that pays for itself.** Karpenter or Cluster Autoscaler + spot.
• **Observability defaults.** Prometheus, Loki, Grafana with pre-built dashboards.
• **Policy as code.** Kyverno or OPA. Catch mistakes in PR, not at 3am.

Ship this and you'll handle 100x growth without rewriting.