Managed Operations
Kubernetes Support
24×7 Kubernetes support from UK engineers: AKS, EKS and on-premises clusters designed, monitored, upgraded and fixed, so your platforms stay healthy and your team stays focused.
Kubernetes, without the 2am pages
Kubernetes is brilliant and unforgiving. It rewards teams that keep on top of upgrades, security and capacity, and punishes everyone else with mysterious outages, deprecated APIs and clusters nobody dares touch. Next2IT’s Kubernetes support gives you a platform team on tap: UK engineers who design, monitor, upgrade and fix clusters 24×7, so yours stays an asset rather than a liability.
What we support
Managed cloud Kubernetes. Azure Kubernetes Service and Amazon EKS on AWS, built to well-architected standards with autoscaling, availability zones and cost controls configured properly from day one.
Self-hosted and edge clusters. Kubernetes and k3s on your own hardware, including Azure Local and private cloud estates, for workloads that need to stay on site.
The platform around the pods. Ingress and load balancing, DNS and certificates, persistent storage, secrets management, observability stacks and GitOps pipelines: the plumbing that determines whether Kubernetes feels solid or fragile.
What you get
Around-the-clock monitoring. Our network operations centre watches cluster and workload health continuously: nodes, control planes, pods, resource pressure and certificate expiry, with engineers responding to alerts in real time rather than a dashboard nobody reads.
Lifecycle management. Version upgrades, node patching and API deprecation handling on a planned cadence, tested against your workloads and rolled out in reversible steps. No more clusters stuck three versions behind because upgrading feels too risky.
Security and hardening. RBAC done properly, network policies, pod security standards, image scanning and CIS benchmark alignment, with drift monitored rather than assumed.
Honest right-sizing. Kubernetes bills grow quietly. We watch requests, limits and node utilisation, and tune the platform so you pay for what your workloads actually need.
Why Next2IT
We run production clusters for clients across manufacturing, healthcare and software, on AKS, EKS and bare metal, and we’re vendor-independent: if Kubernetes is the wrong tool for your workload, we’ll tell you before you spend a year discovering it. When it’s the right tool, we make it dependable.
The benefits
The benefits of Kubernetes Support
What you gain when kubernetes support is delivered and managed by Next2IT.
Managed clusters, any flavour
AKS, EKS and self-hosted Kubernetes designed, built and managed, in the cloud or on your own hardware.
24×7 monitoring and response
Cluster health, workloads, nodes and control planes watched around the clock, with engineers who act on alerts.
Upgrades without drama
Version upgrades, deprecation checks and API migrations planned and executed before end-of-support bites.
Security and hardening
RBAC, network policies, image scanning and secrets management aligned to CIS benchmarks.
Cluster keeping you up at night?
We monitor, patch and fix Kubernetes around the clock, so your team can build instead of firefight.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We design, deploy and support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Amazon EKS clusters, and we also manage self-hosted and edge distributions such as k3s where workloads need to live on-premises. Wherever the cluster runs, you get the same 24×7 monitoring, patching and engineering support.
Yes, and it's one of the most common ways engagements start. We begin with a review of the cluster: versions, configuration, security posture, resource usage and workload health. You get a prioritised findings report, we fix what's urgent, then we take on the day-to-day running with monitoring, upgrades and support.
Yes. Kubernetes moves fast, and unsupported versions quickly become a security and compatibility risk. We track the release cycle for you, test upgrades against your workloads, handle API deprecations, and roll upgrades through your environments in planned, reversible steps.
We support the platform and the plumbing your applications depend on: ingress, DNS, certificates, storage, autoscaling, observability and CI/CD integration. Your developers keep shipping; we make sure the platform underneath them is secure, current and reliable.
Sometimes, honestly, yes. If a simpler platform such as App Service, ECS or plain virtual machines fits your workloads better, we'll say so. Where Kubernetes is the right answer, we make it boring and dependable rather than a science project.
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