MANAGED CONTAINER PLATFORM
Kubernetes operations without growing a platform guild overnight
A managed engagement keeps upgrades, patching, and incident response on a cadence your applications can rely on. Our engineers operate Kubernetes on AWS and Azure alongside your product teams, grounded in the same platform patterns we use in greenfield builds.
CI/CD and GitOps stay with your delivery teams; capacity, cluster hygiene, and change windows sit with ours inside jointly agreed guardrails.
A managed Kubernetes service, run by senior engineers
Operations on EKS, AKS, and OpenShift: with runbooks, on-call, and an upgrade cadence that keeps the platform safe and current.
Operate
24/7 monitoring, alerting, and on-call. Capacity scaling and cluster maintenance handled inside agreed change windows: so production doesn't catch you on a Friday night.
Upgrade
Kubernetes versions, control-plane patches, node-pool images, and ingress controllers kept on a planned cadence: with pre-prod rehearsals and a documented rollback path.
Improve
GitOps with Argo CD or Flux, observability with Prometheus and Grafana, and incremental hardening: supply-chain controls, OPA/Gatekeeper, image scanning: as your platform matures.
Run by certified Kubernetes engineers
Senior, certified team
CKA, CKAD, AWS, and Azure certified. The same people who design platforms also run them: no over-the-wall handoff.
Operations-grade observability
Metrics, logs, and traces tied to alerts and runbooks: not dashboards no one reads.
Compliance built in
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, NEN 4400-1. EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR factored into the operating model.
Our managed Kubernetes platforms across the Netherlands
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.
Based in Rijswijk: on-site across the Randstad, remote elsewhere in the EU
NEN 4400-1, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certified
Bilingual delivery in Dutch and English
EU data residency, NIS2, DORA, and GDPR factored into the design
Who we work with
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.
Veraartlaan 12
2288 GM Rijswijk, The Netherlands
info@thefactory.nl
Where managed container platform fits in our offering
The same engineers stay on the work.
- Documented decisions. Architecture, trade-offs, and runbooks live in the same repository as the code: reviewable on day one and on day 200.
- Monthly WTF sessions. Engineers walk through customer work, technical deep-dives, experiments, and what didn’t work. What The Faqtory!: our standing internal review.
- Standing learning investment. Active Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru access, certification time, and study agreements where the depth justifies it.
The point isn’t novelty. The point is that two years in, the platform still makes sense to the people running it. Read about our engineering culture