Cloud architecture and migration

Setting up a new cloud environment or migrating existing workloads involves both application and operations teams. With our Microsoft Solutions Partner (Cloud & AI Platforms) expertise, we design and deploy Azure Landing Zone and AKS architectures alongside AWS (EKS), GCP (GKE) and on-premises RKE2 around your data residency, networking, identity and operational needs.

Scope of the work

• Cloud environment design based on data residency, networking, identity and storage needs
• A phased migration plan covering application dependencies, tests and rollback steps
• Domain modeling and service boundary definition
• Containerization, with a standard for base images, Helm and Kustomize
• Production-grade cluster setup on AKS, EKS or GKE, or on RKE2 on premises
• A delivery pipeline with GitOps and progressive rollout (canary, blue-green)
• Service-to-service communication: synchronous APIs, event streams, messaging
• Observability, SLOs and alerting
• Handover of on-call rotation, runbooks and operational ownership

How we work

1. 1

   Architecture and cluster design

   We select managed Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE) or RKE2 around data residency, and design control plane, node pools, networking, storage and identity.

2. 2

   Phased migration plan

   We break the migration into stages by business impact and dependencies, running old and new components side by side.

3. 3

   Progressive cutover and rollback

   We shift traffic gradually after verifying tests, acceptance criteria and rollback steps with the application team.

Tooling

Clusters

AKSEKSGKERKE2 (on-premises installations)

Containers

DockerBuildKitcontainerd

Delivery

Argo CDHelmKustomizeArgo Rollouts

Events and messaging

KafkaNATSRabbitMQ

Networking and traffic

CiliumCalicoIstioLinkerdcert-manager (certificates)

Storage

MinIOS3-compatible object storage

Observability

OpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaLokiTempo

Deliverables and handover

At handover your team receives the running cluster, the access model, step-by-step guides for taking new services to production, observability dashboards and runbooks.