// Container Orchestration
Docker & Kubernetes
Container-based deployment for reproducible, scalable workloads.
6+ years hands-on experience
// Overview
How we use Docker & Kubernetes
Docker and Kubernetes are central to our DevOps practice. Multi-stage Dockerfiles produce minimal, secure images. Kubernetes on EKS or GKE provides horizontal scaling, rolling deployments, and self-healing for production workloads with variable traffic.
// Use cases
- Production container orchestration
- Local development environment consistency
- Microservices deployment
- Blue-green and canary deployments
- Scheduled batch jobs (Kubernetes CronJobs)
// Why it matters
Reproducible environments
Docker containers eliminate environment parity issues between development, staging, and production, same image deployed everywhere.
Horizontal scaling
Kubernetes HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler) scales pods based on CPU, memory, or custom metrics, handling traffic spikes without manual intervention.
GitOps deployment
ArgoCD or Flux enables declarative GitOps deployment, infrastructure state defined in Git and automatically reconciled by the cluster.
// Production patterns
How we ship with Docker & Kubernetes
Multi-stage Dockerfiles, distroless or alpine runtime images, non-root users, and CI image scanning with Trivy before registry push.
EKS or ECS depending on team K8s maturity; HPA on CPU and custom metrics (queue depth, p95 latency) for worker tiers.
Blue-green and canary deploys via ALB weighted target groups; connection draining configured before old task drain.
// FAQ
Docker & Kubernetes: common questions
Kubernetes vs ECS?+
ECS when you want AWS-native ops with less cluster babysitting. EKS when multi-cloud GitOps or service mesh is already mandated.
Local dev parity?+
Docker Compose or devcontainers matching prod service topology, env files never committed; secrets from AWS SM.
How do you handle secrets in K8s?+
External Secrets Operator pulling from AWS Secrets Manager, not plain ConfigMaps for credentials.
// Company and service positioning
Company and Service positioning is reviewed for production delivery standards by Harsha Parthasarathy (Co-Founder, Strategy & Operations 24+ years IT veteran, IBM, Global Delivery, Program Management) and Keshav Sharma (Co-Founder, Engineering and Lead Architect, Full-stack engineering, product delivery and technical standards).
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