Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT

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Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT (PRODYNA)

PRODYNA

Managed Kubernetes platform on STACKIT by PRODYNA: central management cluster, GitOps fleet governance, workload cluster rollout, and operational handover.

External source de.prodyna.com PRODYNA Cloud Adoption services Primary source for the Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT offer. Open external site Leads off the trail

PRODYNA

A consulting and engineering company for digital transformation delivery, from landing zones to application modernization.

Delivery roadmap across twelve weeks: discovery and target architecture, landing zone foundation, management cluster foundation, workload cluster fleet rollout, and handover, each with its deliverable

Overview

The Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT is a PRODYNA service offer for establishing an enterprise-grade, multi-cluster container platform on sovereign STACKIT infrastructure.

The platform is built around a central management cluster that distributes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration fleet-wide, so every workload cluster inherits the same security, compliance, and operational baseline. Typical delivery runs 8 to 12 weeks and results in a production-ready platform plus a roadmap for further platform maturity and fleet expansion.

Why organizations need this

Organizations running containerized workloads across multiple teams and environments regularly hit the same wall: inconsistent cluster configuration, manual provisioning, thin governance, and growing security and compliance risk. Without a platform approach, operational complexity grows with every additional cluster.

Central governance: One management cluster distributes add-ons and configuration fleet-wide.
Scalable fleet: Automated provisioning and consistent baselines across all workload clusters.
Sovereign operations: EU-compliant operations on BSI C5 and ISO 27001 certified STACKIT infrastructure.
Rapid provisioning: Clusters in hours rather than weeks, fully configured from the management cluster.

Discovery and target architecture

A one-day discovery workshop with key stakeholders assesses the current infrastructure, workloads, and compliance requirements. Within the same week the target architecture and landing zone strategy are agreed.

Cluster topology, environment split, and landing zone placement.
Security, RBAC, and policy enforcement approach (OPA / Kyverno).
Observability, logging, and monitoring strategy.
Networking, ingress, and connectivity requirements.

Deliverable: Kickoff alignment, cloud strategy fit, and an assessment of the current platform landscape with the resulting target architecture decisions.

Management cluster foundation

The management cluster is deployed into a landing zone project and serves as the central control plane for the fleet. Expect roughly three to four weeks for this phase.

GitOps-based configuration and automated lifecycle management.
Distribution of Kubernetes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration.
CI/CD integration and governance tooling.
Policy enforcement and RBAC baselines applied fleet-wide.

Deliverable: Production-ready management cluster with CI/CD and governance tooling.

Workload cluster fleet rollout

Initial workload clusters for Dev, Test, and Prod are provisioned, with add-ons and configuration synchronized from the management cluster. Expect roughly two to three weeks.

Automated cluster provisioning against the agreed baseline.
Configuration synchronization and drift detection from the management cluster.
Centralized observability wired up per cluster.
Optional: an Internal Developer Platform proof of concept validating portal-based onboarding.

Deliverable: Operational workload clusters with developer self-service enabled.

Handover and operational enablement

The closing phase enables internal teams to operate the platform confidently. Expect roughly two to three weeks of knowledge transfer and handover.

Cluster lifecycle management and add-on upgrades.
Scaling operations and capacity planning.
Monitoring, alerting, and incident response paths.
Runbooks and documentation for day-2 operations.

Deliverable: Trained internal team capable of managing the full platform lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Existing STACKIT organization: A STACKIT organization must already be available.
Landing zone setup: A landing zone baseline must exist or be delivered alongside this offer.
Expert availability: Platform team and STACKIT team stakeholders available during delivery.

BASE

Landing Zone Foundation

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CAF Landing Zones Implementation (PRODYNA)

PRODYNA

CAF landing zones implementation by PRODYNA: managed landing zone delivery service for enterprise cloud adoption and migration enablement on the STACKIT Cloud.

PRODYNA

A consulting and engineering company for digital transformation delivery, from landing zones to application modernization.

Overview

The CAF Landing Zone - Foundation Accelerator is a PRODYNA service offer for establishing an enterprise-ready STACKIT foundation with CAF-aligned landing zones. The offer is designed as a focused 5-day workshop to deliver a first productive landing zone (MVP) with governance, network hub, hybrid connectivity, and predefined landing zones.

Reference:

CAF Landing Zone - Foundation Accelerator (Marketplace)

Highlights

Reduced risk: The IaC blueprint is based on proven enterprise deployment experience and was developed in close collaboration with STACKIT.
Fast start: The blueprint already covers common enterprise requirements and is adapted collaboratively during the workshop.
Scalable foundation: The modular IaC structure supports enterprise-scale rollout across additional regions, environments, and landing zones.
Transparency and ownership: Full source code access enables teams to operate and evolve the setup without implementation-level lock-in.

What you get in the 5-day workshop

Assessment and alignment: Review your current cloud journey, align stakeholders, and hand over the landing zone blueprint.
Governance and hierarchy setup: Define and implement governance with a structured project hierarchy.
Central management structures: Build core platform management components required for operations at scale.
Hub networking baseline: Implement a network hub including firewall, VPN gateway, and DNS.
First landing zone rollout: Set up and connect the first landing zone on STACKIT.

Prerequisites

Existing STACKIT organization: A STACKIT organization must already be available.
Expert availability: Relevant customer stakeholders should be available during the workshop.

Positioning with STACKIT assets

This partner asset can be used alongside STACKIT-provided templates and managed offerings, depending on customer sourcing strategy and delivery model.

STEP

Management Cluster Foundation

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Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT (PRODYNA)

PRODYNA

Managed Kubernetes platform on STACKIT by PRODYNA: central management cluster, GitOps fleet governance, workload cluster rollout, and operational handover.

External source de.prodyna.com PRODYNA Cloud Adoption services Primary source for the Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT offer. Open external site Leads off the trail

PRODYNA

A consulting and engineering company for digital transformation delivery, from landing zones to application modernization.

Fleet architecture: a Git repository feeds a management cluster in the platform landing zone, which synchronizes add-ons, policy, configuration, and observability into the Dev, Test, and Prod workload clusters

Overview

The Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT is a PRODYNA service offer for establishing an enterprise-grade, multi-cluster container platform on sovereign STACKIT infrastructure.

The platform is built around a central management cluster that distributes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration fleet-wide, so every workload cluster inherits the same security, compliance, and operational baseline. Typical delivery runs 8 to 12 weeks and results in a production-ready platform plus a roadmap for further platform maturity and fleet expansion.

Why organizations need this

Organizations running containerized workloads across multiple teams and environments regularly hit the same wall: inconsistent cluster configuration, manual provisioning, thin governance, and growing security and compliance risk. Without a platform approach, operational complexity grows with every additional cluster.

Central governance: One management cluster distributes add-ons and configuration fleet-wide.
Scalable fleet: Automated provisioning and consistent baselines across all workload clusters.
Sovereign operations: EU-compliant operations on BSI C5 and ISO 27001 certified STACKIT infrastructure.
Rapid provisioning: Clusters in hours rather than weeks, fully configured from the management cluster.

Discovery and target architecture

A one-day discovery workshop with key stakeholders assesses the current infrastructure, workloads, and compliance requirements. Within the same week the target architecture and landing zone strategy are agreed.

Cluster topology, environment split, and landing zone placement.
Security, RBAC, and policy enforcement approach (OPA / Kyverno).
Observability, logging, and monitoring strategy.
Networking, ingress, and connectivity requirements.

Deliverable: Kickoff alignment, cloud strategy fit, and an assessment of the current platform landscape with the resulting target architecture decisions.

Management cluster foundation

The management cluster is deployed into a landing zone project and serves as the central control plane for the fleet. Expect roughly three to four weeks for this phase.

GitOps-based configuration and automated lifecycle management.
Distribution of Kubernetes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration.
CI/CD integration and governance tooling.
Policy enforcement and RBAC baselines applied fleet-wide.

Deliverable: Production-ready management cluster with CI/CD and governance tooling.

Workload cluster fleet rollout

Initial workload clusters for Dev, Test, and Prod are provisioned, with add-ons and configuration synchronized from the management cluster. Expect roughly two to three weeks.

Automated cluster provisioning against the agreed baseline.
Configuration synchronization and drift detection from the management cluster.
Centralized observability wired up per cluster.
Optional: an Internal Developer Platform proof of concept validating portal-based onboarding.

Deliverable: Operational workload clusters with developer self-service enabled.

Handover and operational enablement

The closing phase enables internal teams to operate the platform confidently. Expect roughly two to three weeks of knowledge transfer and handover.

Cluster lifecycle management and add-on upgrades.
Scaling operations and capacity planning.
Monitoring, alerting, and incident response paths.
Runbooks and documentation for day-2 operations.

Deliverable: Trained internal team capable of managing the full platform lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Existing STACKIT organization: A STACKIT organization must already be available.
Landing zone setup: A landing zone baseline must exist or be delivered alongside this offer.
Expert availability: Platform team and STACKIT team stakeholders available during delivery.

Choose the GitOps stack

Argo CD or Flux reconciles the desired state, and Crossplane extends the same loop to STACKIT resources so networks and databases are declared next to the workloads that use them. Which of the two engines you pick matters far less than committing to one and giving the whole fleet a single repository layout.

SAFE

Guardrails and Compliance Baseline

Define what every cluster inherits before the fleet exists: RBAC baselines, admission control through OPA or Kyverno, network policies, and the add-ons that carry ingress, secrets, backup, and observability.

Guardrails are distributed from the management cluster and reconciled continuously, so the baseline is identical in Dev, Test, and Prod and stays identical as the fleet grows. This is what makes BSI C5 and ISO 27001 operation an architectural property rather than an audit exercise.

Seven-layer cluster baseline from sovereign STACKIT infrastructure and the landing zone up through SKE, guardrails, platform add-ons, and golden paths to team workloads, with the guardrail and add-on layers enforced fleet-wide from the management cluster

LIFT

Workload Cluster Fleet Rollout

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Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT (PRODYNA)

PRODYNA

Managed Kubernetes platform on STACKIT by PRODYNA: central management cluster, GitOps fleet governance, workload cluster rollout, and operational handover.

External source de.prodyna.com PRODYNA Cloud Adoption services Primary source for the Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT offer. Open external site Leads off the trail

PRODYNA

A consulting and engineering company for digital transformation delivery, from landing zones to application modernization.

Overview

The Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT is a PRODYNA service offer for establishing an enterprise-grade, multi-cluster container platform on sovereign STACKIT infrastructure.

The platform is built around a central management cluster that distributes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration fleet-wide, so every workload cluster inherits the same security, compliance, and operational baseline. Typical delivery runs 8 to 12 weeks and results in a production-ready platform plus a roadmap for further platform maturity and fleet expansion.

Why organizations need this

Organizations running containerized workloads across multiple teams and environments regularly hit the same wall: inconsistent cluster configuration, manual provisioning, thin governance, and growing security and compliance risk. Without a platform approach, operational complexity grows with every additional cluster.

Central governance: One management cluster distributes add-ons and configuration fleet-wide.
Scalable fleet: Automated provisioning and consistent baselines across all workload clusters.
Sovereign operations: EU-compliant operations on BSI C5 and ISO 27001 certified STACKIT infrastructure.
Rapid provisioning: Clusters in hours rather than weeks, fully configured from the management cluster.

Discovery and target architecture

A one-day discovery workshop with key stakeholders assesses the current infrastructure, workloads, and compliance requirements. Within the same week the target architecture and landing zone strategy are agreed.

Cluster topology, environment split, and landing zone placement.
Security, RBAC, and policy enforcement approach (OPA / Kyverno).
Observability, logging, and monitoring strategy.
Networking, ingress, and connectivity requirements.

Deliverable: Kickoff alignment, cloud strategy fit, and an assessment of the current platform landscape with the resulting target architecture decisions.

Management cluster foundation

The management cluster is deployed into a landing zone project and serves as the central control plane for the fleet. Expect roughly three to four weeks for this phase.

GitOps-based configuration and automated lifecycle management.
Distribution of Kubernetes add-ons, Helm charts, and standardized configuration.
CI/CD integration and governance tooling.
Policy enforcement and RBAC baselines applied fleet-wide.

Deliverable: Production-ready management cluster with CI/CD and governance tooling.

Workload cluster fleet rollout

Initial workload clusters for Dev, Test, and Prod are provisioned, with add-ons and configuration synchronized from the management cluster. Expect roughly two to three weeks.

Automated cluster provisioning against the agreed baseline.
Configuration synchronization and drift detection from the management cluster.
Centralized observability wired up per cluster.
Optional: an Internal Developer Platform proof of concept validating portal-based onboarding.

Deliverable: Operational workload clusters with developer self-service enabled.

Handover and operational enablement

The closing phase enables internal teams to operate the platform confidently. Expect roughly two to three weeks of knowledge transfer and handover.

Cluster lifecycle management and add-on upgrades.
Scaling operations and capacity planning.
Monitoring, alerting, and incident response paths.
Runbooks and documentation for day-2 operations.

Deliverable: Trained internal team capable of managing the full platform lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Existing STACKIT organization: A STACKIT organization must already be available.
Landing zone setup: A landing zone baseline must exist or be delivered alongside this offer.
Expert availability: Platform team and STACKIT team stakeholders available during delivery.

Developer Self-Service

A portal turns the platform into a catalog: a team picks a template and receives a repository, a pipeline, and a namespace with the baseline already applied, without filing a ticket. Worth proving with a small pilot during the rollout rather than deferring it to a later project.

AUTO

Land the First Workloads

A platform proves itself when workloads run on it. The first application walks the whole path end to end: built and tested in CI, scanned and signed, stored in the container registry, then delivered into the cluster by the same GitOps engine that governs the fleet.

The image tag is the handoff between CI and GitOps, which is why the pipeline never needs cluster credentials. The admission gate rejects anything unsigned or non-compliant before it reaches a node, promotion between Dev, Test, and Prod changes values rather than manifests, and a rollback is a reverted commit rather than a manual intervention. Once the first workload has walked this path, every team after it inherits the same route as a paved road.

Workload delivery in two lanes: the build lane runs from the source repository through the CI pipeline, scanning and signing, into the STACKIT Container Registry; the delivery lane commits the image tag to the config repository, reconciles it with GitOps on the management cluster, checks it at the admission gate, and runs it in Dev, Test, and Prod

OPS

Day-2 Operations and Fleet Lifecycle

Day-2 is where a platform is won or lost. The standing job is keeping the whole fleet current and provably healthy: Kubernetes versions, node images, add-on releases, certificate rotation, and the response window for new policies and CVEs.

Each of those changes is made once in the platform repository and rolled out in waves, Dev first, then Test, then Prod, with every wave gated on the previous one staying healthy. A wave that does not come up healthy stops the rollout, so the blast radius of a bad platform change is one environment rather than the whole fleet, and proving that every cluster runs the agreed version is a query against the fleet rather than a spreadsheet someone maintains by hand. Tuning an individual workload is deliberately not on this list. That belongs to the application team that owns the workload.

Day-2 in two sections: what the platform keeps current across the fleet, namely Kubernetes version, node pools and OS, platform add-ons, certificates and secrets, and policies and CVEs; and how such a change reaches the fleet, proposed in the platform repository, applied once on the management cluster, then rolled out in gated waves to Dev, Test, and Prod

GOAL

Handover and Operational Enablement

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Managed Kubernetes Platform on STACKIT (PRODYNA)

PRODYNA

Managed Kubernetes platform on STACKIT by PRODYNA: central management cluster, GitOps fleet governance, workload cluster rollout, and operational handover.