Kubernetes Cluster Development for OTT Provider
"They were easy to work with, quick to adapt, and genuinely focused on finding the best solution for our needs."
The Challenge
Design and deploy a production-grade Kubernetes cluster from scratch to enable migration from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, while consolidating critical infrastructure services including authentication, monitoring, and secure remote access into a unified, maintainable platform.
The Approach
We designed and provisioned a Kubernetes cluster from the ground up, tailored to the client's infrastructure requirements. The core objective was enabling a migration from MySQL 5.7 to MySQL 8, which required a modern orchestration layer capable of managing stateful workloads reliably.
- Kubernetes cluster setup, configuration, and hardening
- MySQL 8 deployment on Kubernetes with data migration from legacy MySQL 5.7 instances
- Centralized identity and access management (authentication/authorization)
- VPN deployment for secure remote access to cluster resources
- Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) setup for database-level observability and performance tracking
The project encompassed architecture planning, environment provisioning, service deployment, data migration, security configuration, and post-launch validation. All components were deployed as containerized workloads within the cluster, ensuring consistency, scalability, and ease of maintenance.
The Outcome
Technologies Used
Kubernetes
Talos Linux
Percona XtraDB
PMM Monitoring
Argo CD
Cilium
ZITADEL
Tailscale
Grafana
Loki
Promtail
Alertmanager
cert-manager
OAuth2 Proxy
Velero
Ceph
Rook
Vault
External Secrets
ExternalDNS
Harbor
Teleport
Zabbix