Platform / Kubernetes

Kubernetes HA without the marketing promises

Kubernetes HA isn't just a second node. It's quorum, production-grade storage, a load balancer, an upgrade strategy and a failover test. We design it as a whole, not as a checkbox on a sales sheet.

Consult on HAPricing from 1 490 zł

For whom

SaaS and e-commerce production
Systems with SLA requirements
Teams who heard "HA" but never got the details
Companies planning a move off 1 node

What you get

Quorum architecture (3+ nodes)
Load balancer and HA ingress
Storage class that survives a node failure
Upgrade strategy with rollback
Failover test before hand-off
Cluster health monitoring

Packages and pricing

Prices net per month, starting proposals

Dedicated K8s Dev
1 node — test/preprod/dev
od 1 490 zł
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Dedicated K8s Starter
1 node — small production
od 2 490 zł
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Dedicated K8s HA Light
2 nodes + witness/quorum
od 4 490 zł
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Recommended
Dedicated K8s Business HA
3 nodes — production
od 7 990 zł
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Dedicated K8s Enterprise
3+ nodes, node pools, DR
od 15 000 zł
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For HA — a quote after a short assessment. Add-ons (1h backup, PITR, read replica, migration) are quoted clearly before deployment.

Why it's worth it

Why it's worth handing this to us

Kubernetes needs constant care
Ingress, storage, RBAC and upgrades are work that doesn't end after go-live.
Security and isolation
Network policies, limits and updates keep the cluster in check.
Updates with rollback
We raise versions in maintenance windows, not in a panic.
In every package

The standard you don't pay extra for

Backup and restore
24h backup by default, 1h backup and PITR optional, restore on demand and recovery tests.
Monitoring and alerts
Metrics, logs and alerts matched to your risk — you know about an issue before a customer reports it.
Security and access
SSL/TLS, access restrictions, RBAC, hardening and private networks and VPN.
Deployments and updates
GitOps, Helm, CI/CD, maintenance windows and prepared rollback procedures.
Locations PL / FR / DE / USA
We pick the region for latency, cost and EU compliance.
Documentation and care
Environment description, runbook, emergency procedures and contact with a technical person.
Managed vs in-house

Why managed costs less than an in-house hire

A single in-house specialist rarely covers 24/7, backup, monitoring and SLA at once. Here's a realistic comparison.

Your own specialist (in-house)
One salary = one person
A senior admin/DevOps is a full employer cost of ~18–25k zł/mo — and it's still just one person.
Available 8–16
Working hours, holidays, sick leave and weekends. A night outage waits until morning.
Backup on their shoulders
Separate tooling and storage cost; restore tests often skipped.
No formal SLA
No one guarantees response time; knowledge sits in one head (bus factor).
Tools and training
Monitoring, licenses, certs and training add to the salary.
VITAL CLOUD Managed
A 24/7 team
Many people, on-call and procedures. Someone's there even when your admin sleeps.
SLA in writing
An agreed response time per package, not goodwill.
Backup in 3 locations
Copies in three places, with validation and deduplication, and restore tests.
Service monitoring included
Alerts before a customer reports it; automatic service recovery after a failure.
Auto-provisioning
We start services automatically and repeatably (GitOps/IaC).
What it really costs per month
ItemIn-houseVITAL CLOUD
Specialist1 FTE ~18–25k zł/mo (8–16, holidays)24/7 team included in the package
AvailabilityBusiness days, working hours24/7 per package
Backup+tools and storage, tests often skipped3 locations, validation, deduplication — included
MonitoringSeparate tools + configurationIncluded, with alerts and auto-restart
SLANone / informalFormal, in writing
Bus-factor riskKnowledge in one headProcedures, runbook, team
Entry costRecruitment + onboardingFrom a few hundred zł/mo
Illustrative comparison. Amounts depend on market and scale — but even one in-house senior rarely replaces a team, backup in 3 places, monitoring and an SLA at once.See how much you'd save

FAQ

How is HA different from a regular cluster?
A regular cluster can have a single point of failure in the control plane, storage or network. HA means we designed out — and tested — the absence of that point.
Do you run a failover test before hand-off?
Yes — it's a standard step before handing an HA cluster over to production.

Did someone promise you HA without showing how?

Describe the app and SLA requirements. We'll show the architecture and test failover before hand-off.

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