Kubernetes is the open-source platform that schedules containerised workloads across a fleet of machines, gives them stable networking and storage, and self-heals when things break. It is the control plane every modern cloud platform relies on: including the managed services from AWS (EKS) and Azure (AKS), and Red Hat OpenShift on either.
Running Kubernetes well in production is distinct from day-one tutorials. We help teams design clusters for security, cost, tenancy, observability, and developer experience: then operate them 24/7 if you want us to.
Three concerns we treat as first-class on every cluster we ship.
We design managed-service-first clusters (EKS, AKS, OpenShift) using Terraform, with workload separation, regional resilience, ingress patterns, and an opinionated network policy baseline.
Workloads ship via ArgoCD or Flux from peer-reviewed Git repositories. Manifests are templated with Helm or Kustomize, secrets resolved from Vault or a managed KMS, and PR previews bring up isolated namespaces for review.
We instrument every cluster with Prometheus, Loki/ELK, Grafana and OpenTelemetry, set sensible SLOs, run upgrades on a calendar (not in panic), and keep cost pressure visible with Kubecost or native cloud reports.
The point isn't Kubernetes itself: it's the developer experience and operational confidence that come with a cluster built like a product.
You want a paved-road internal developer platform on top of Kubernetes: not a cluster every team has to figure out alone.
You run kops or vanilla Kubernetes today and want to move to EKS, AKS, or OpenShift without a service interruption your customers can see.
You need CIS-benchmark-aligned clusters, signed images, runtime policies and an audit trail that survives an external assessment.
CKA and CKAD certified. Hands-on with EKS, AKS, and OpenShift in production every day.
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and NEN 4400-1 certified company. Cluster security and supply-chain integrity are not afterthoughts.
We can run your platform 24/7: or hand it back to your team with documentation and runbooks they will actually use.
The Factory is a Dutch cloud consultancy based in Rijswijk (Zuid-Holland). We work with organisations across the Randstad (Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Den Haag, Eindhoven), and with customers elsewhere in the European Union. Our architects and platform engineers operate in Dutch and English, with experience on AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
Mostly mid-size and enterprise organisations across the Netherlands: in financial services, public sector, healthcare, education, industry, and SaaS. Engagements range from a short cloud assessment to long-running managed cloud operations.
The Factory B.V.
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2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl
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