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Cloud-Native Consulting & Kubernetes Expertise

We stand up Kubernetes that survives real traffic, real failure, and real audits.

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Cloud-Native Consulting & Kubernetes Expertise — We stand up Kubernetes that survives real traffic, real failure, and real audits.
Engagement overview

Engagement overview

We design and build Kubernetes platforms that hold up in production, not in a demo. That starts with the parts most teams get wrong under load: cluster topology, multi-zone failure domains, network policy, and a security baseline that passes review instead of postponing it.

Every cluster ships as code. Cilium for networking and policy, Karpenter for cost-aware autoscaling, Gateway API for ingress, cert-manager for TLS, and Prometheus with OpenTelemetry for signals you can actually act on. You get a platform your engineers operate confidently and an architecture we can defend line by line.

That depth is specific, and it is checkable before you hire us. Cilium replaces kube-proxy with eBPF datapath programming, which changes how you debug a cluster — we have published the investigation of a stale eBPF NetworkPolicy on GKE Dataplane V2 rather than describing it in the abstract. Multi-zone topology means designing for the failure you will actually get: control-plane quorum across zones, spread constraints that survive an availability-zone loss, and storage whose replication domain matches the compute one. Bare metal changes the calculus again, which is why the Talos work is written up as war stories with the failures left in.

We contribute to the ecosystem we deploy. Edixos authors and maintains the Crossplane provider for OVHcloud in the open — releases 2.17.0 and 2.18.0 shipped in 2026 — and is an OVHcloud Standard Partner. When your platform depends on an API nobody has covered, that is not a hypothetical for us. The engineering blog is the portfolio: read how we reason about IPAM in multi-tenant clusters, controller cache staleness, or just-in-time privileged access, and judge the expertise from the work rather than from a claim on a services page.

Diagram of a control plane reconciling three worker nodes

Illustrative schematic, not live telemetry

Tools in this engagement

Tools in this engagement

  • Kubernetes
  • Cilium
  • Karpenter
  • Gateway API
  • cert-manager
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry
Delivery vector

From assessment to production

  1. 01

    Assess

    Review the current estate, workloads, and constraints. Map the failure modes and the compliance surface before touching anything.

  2. 02

    Architect

    Define cluster topology, network and identity model, and the security baseline as reviewable design decisions.

  3. 03

    Build

    Provision everything as infrastructure-as-code, with reproducible modules and a GitOps reconciliation loop.

  4. 04

    Harden

    Apply policy enforcement, load and chaos testing, and the observability needed to run with confidence.

  5. 05

    Handover

    Transfer operational depth through runbooks, paired on-call, and documentation your team owns.

Engineering spec

Ecosystems, tooling, and deliverables

Target ecosystems
  • AWS EKS
  • Google Cloud GKE
  • Azure AKS
  • Bare-metal and Talos Linux
Tooling
  • Kubernetes
  • Cilium
  • Karpenter
  • Gateway API
  • cert-manager
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry
Deliverables
  • Production cluster blueprint
  • Infrastructure-as-code modules
  • Security and network baseline
  • Operational runbooks
Prerequisites
  • Cloud account or data-centre access
  • Identity provider for federation
  • A named platform owner on your side

Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Do you do Kubernetes consulting in Paris and Île-de-France?

Yes. Edixos is a French company registered in Sannois, Val-d'Oise, in the Île-de-France region, and three of our engineers are based in Paris. We work on site across Île-de-France for workshops, audits and design sessions, and remotely for the build phases, which is where most of the hours go. We also deliver across France and the rest of the EU.

What makes a specialist Kubernetes consultancy different from a generalist?

Ask for the code. A specialist can show you what it has shipped in the open: we maintain provider-ovh, the Crossplane provider for OVHcloud, published on the Upbound Marketplace with more than 15,000 downloads and running Database-as-a-Service in production for French social ministries, and Nauticus, a controller for multi-tenant namespace isolation. Our founder has held the CKA since December 2017, among the first worldwide. Read the code before you sign anything.

Who actually does the work on a Kubernetes engagement?

The engineers whose names and profiles are on this site. There is no sales team that wins the work and no junior bench that delivers it. You meet the people who will write the code during the first conversation, and the same people run the handover at the end.

We already run Kubernetes but it is fragile. Is that an audit or a rebuild?

It starts as an audit and the audit decides. The Assess phase maps the failure modes and the compliance surface before anything is touched, and it frequently concludes that the topology is sound and the problem is policy, observability or the release path. Rebuilding a working cluster is the expensive answer, so we only recommend it when the assessment shows the topology itself cannot meet the load or the audit.

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