Fiber Monitoring Startup Kubernetes Platform
The Challenge
Early-stage startup building a monitoring platform for dark fiber networks. Development environment pipelines needed for Go backend services and TypeScript frontend. Required Kubernetes cluster on Vultr for cost efficiency. Team lacked DevOps expertise and needed a production-ready platform quickly to focus on product development.
What We Built
Technology Stack
Security & Compliance
- Vulnerability scanning in CI/CD and Kubernetes runtime
- Secrets managed with Sealed Secrets (GitOps-friendly)
- Pod Security Standards enforced cluster-wide
- Network policies isolating tenant workloads
- Automated certificate management with cert-manager
The Results
Production-ready Kubernetes platform delivered in 6 weeks
Dev team able to deploy 10+ times per day with confidence
60% cost savings vs. AWS EKS
Full observability and alerting from day one
Custom operator automated domain-specific operational tasks
Why catdev?
Startups need fast execution without cutting corners on security or reliability. catdev delivered a production-grade platform quickly, allowing the founding team to focus on product-market fit instead of infrastructure firefighting. The custom operator in Go showed deep technical expertise beyond standard tooling.
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