I migrate Docker Compose stacks to production-ready Kubernetes deployments — converting each service to a properly configured Deployment or StatefulSet, wiring in Ingress with TLS, replacing env files with ConfigMaps and Secrets, adding probes and resource limits, and integrating with your CI/CD pipeline so the cluster gets treated as a first-class deployment target.
Migration process: pre-migration assessment (audit your Compose file, flag stateful services that need special handling, identify secrets and volumes); service conversion (Deployment or StatefulSet per service, Service and Ingress resources, ConfigMaps for config, Secrets or ExternalSecret for sensitive values, PersistentVolumeClaims for volumes); production hardening (liveness and readiness probes, resource requests and limits, HorizontalPodAutoscaler for stateless services, PodDisruptionBudget for availability); and CI/CD integration (updated GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipeline, or ArgoCD/Flux GitOps setup).
Deliverables: Kubernetes manifests or a Helm chart with per-environment values files; updated CI/CD pipeline; a deployment verification checklist; and a migration guide explaining what changed and why so your team can maintain it.
Databases get assessed individually — blindly migrating a production database to a Kubernetes Deployment is often wrong. I'll recommend the appropriate approach (managed cloud database, StatefulSet with proper storage class, or keeping it outside the cluster) based on your workload.
Requires a running Kubernetes cluster. Cluster provisioning is a separate engagement if needed — we can bundle both.