Managed Kubernetes Services

For production workloads, we prioritize Managed Kubernetes services like Azure AKS, TCP Cloud Container Engine, and Google GKE over self-hosted distributions. These platforms abstract the etcd and API server management, providing automated upgrades, autoscaling, and integration with cloud-native identity providers (like Entra ID). This allows our teams to focus on the compute layer and networking interfaces (CNI) rather than control plane maintenance.