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KubeAudit: Independent Assessment of Your Kubernetes Platform

A deep, structured review of your cluster and platform ecosystem. From security, architecture, observability, reliability to operational excellence, all benchmarked against Stakater’s Well-Architected Container Platform (WACP™) framework.

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KubeAudit: Independent Assessment of Your Kubernetes Platform

Provide a complete, production-grade Kubernetes platform architecture tailored to your infrastructure, workloads, security, and operational model.

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What Is KubeAudit?

KubeAudit is a focused 1–2 week assessment engagement designed to give you complete visibility into the current state of your Kubernetes platform.

Using the WACP™ framework, we examine your clusters, platform tooling, workflows, and operating model against industry best practices. The outcome is a clear, actionable assessment that highlights strengths, exposes risks, and defines exactly what needs to change to reach a secure, scalable, production-ready platform.

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Architectural drift

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Inconsistent security controls

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Operational bottlenecks

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Rising costs and unclear ownership

The Problem We Solve

Based on real customer engagements and WACP™ assessment themes:
 

  • Architecture drift from Kubernetes best practices

  • Unclear ownership between Dev, Ops, and Security teams

  • Missing or misconfigured security controls (RBAC, secrets, ingress, policies)

  • Gaps in observability, alerting, and visibility

  • Inconsistent operational processes

  • Documentation gaps slowing onboarding and incident response

  • Inefficient resource usage and avoidable platform costs

What You Get with KubeAudit

Give engineering and leadership teams a clear, unbiased view of their Kubernetes platform, plus prioritized steps to reach production-grade standards. KubeAudit delivers:

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  • Container Platform Scorecard (executive summary across 7 core areas)

  • Full Assessment Report with detailed findings, gaps, and risks

  • Actionable Improvement Roadmap

  • Architecture and operations recommendations

  • Cost, performance, and security optimization guidance

What We Review
(Assessment Scope)

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Platform Architecture & Configuration

  • Cluster setup (control plane, nodes, networking)

  • Namespace and tenancy model

  • Storage & ingress configuration

Security Posture

  • RBAC, IAM integration, and policy enforcement

  • Secrets and certificate lifecycle management

  • Network policies & pod security standards

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Operational Excellence

  • Backups & recovery readiness

  • Upgrade processes & version alignment

  • Documentation and team workflows

Reliability & Performance

  • Resource usage and capacity planning

  • Node health, scheduling, and failure modes

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Observability & Tooling

  • Metrics pipelines

  • Logging architecture

  • Alerting strategy & dashboards

Cost Efficiency

  • Workload right-sizing

  • Autoscaling strategy

  • Overprovisioning analysis

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Task List (How KubeAudit Works)

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Assess (Stakeholder Interviews & Data Collection)

  • Conduct meetings with Platform, Ops, Dev, & Security teams

  • Understand goals, pain points, architecture decisions

  • Collect cluster state, platform tooling configurations, and workloads overview

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Analyze (Deep Technical Review)

  • Compare platform against WACP™ best-practice criteria

  • Score each area (security, reliability, cost, etc.)

  • Identify gaps, risks, and improvement areas
 (As defined in the Assessment Report section.)

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Present (Findings & Recommendations)

  • Delivery of Scorecard + Assessment Report

  • Executive summary for leadership

  • Deep technical walkthrough for engineers

  • Prioritized improvement roadmap

Typical Engagement Timeline (2 Weeks)

Week 1

  • Stakeholder interviews

  • Requirements clarification

  • Initial data and configuration review

Week 2

  • Full WACP™ analysis

  • Scorecard creation

  • Assessment report drafting

  • Findings presentation and roadmap walkthrough

Engagement Model

Stakater Team

  • Platform Architect (Lead Reviewer)

  • Senior Kubernetes Consultant (Security, tooling, and operations)

Customer Participants Typically Include

  • Platform Architect

  • Operations Lead

  • App Dev or DevOps Manager

  • C-level stakeholders (optional)

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Outputs (What You Receive)

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Container Platform Scorecard

An executive-level summary showing maturity across categories such as Security, Reliability, Cost Efficiency, Observability, etc.

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Detailed Assessment Report

Comprehensive findings across all factors and sub-factors, with best practice benchmarks and scoring.

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Improvement Roadmap

A prioritized action plan to move toward a well-architected, production-grade platform.

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Let’s talk Kubernetes.

Describe your Kubernetes setup and we’ll map the next step.

Let’s talk Kubernetes.

Describe your Kubernetes setup and we’ll map the next step.

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