Bare-Metal Kubernetes Management
Stop paying elastic prices for flat traffic.
We move steady workloads from AWS and other clouds to bare-metal Kubernetes, in your own data centre or on rented servers, then run it for you. You get the lower bill without hiring a platform team.
Flat traffic, rising invoice
Your load is the same every month and the bill still finds new lines: egress, NAT gateways, a managed database that costs more than the servers under it.
You can run it, but you can't staff it
You know bare metal costs less. You also know who gets paged when etcd falls over at 3am, and right now that is you.
Managed services are hard to leave
RDS, ALB and CloudWatch are convenient until you try to move. We build on parts you can take with you: Kubernetes, Postgres, ArgoCD.
Migrate once, then we run it
Phase 1 · One-time project
Cloud Exit Migration
We assess your architecture, build bare-metal Kubernetes (RKE2 or k3s) on rented servers or your own hardware, move your workloads across, and check the saving against your last three hyperscaler invoices before you commit.
Phase 2 · Monthly retainer
Managed Infrastructure
Monitoring, incident response, scaling, security patching, backups and cluster upgrades. You own the cluster and the hardware or server account, and we keep it running.
All open source, all swappable. See why we chose each piece.
Run it on rented servers, on your own hardware, or as a hybrid with a small elastic layer for burst load.
Evidence you can check
200,000+ concurrent WebSocket connections held for two years on a k3s cluster. See the WebSocket case study on the Case Studies page.
We cut our own infrastructure spend by about 85% by moving off managed cloud.
- See the merged PR
Pranshul Gupta merged a pull request into kubernetes/kubernetes (sig-cli).
- See the membership request
Our team joined the Kubernetes GitHub organisation in May 2026.
Entry point · Free, bounded
Infrastructure audit
Ten working days. You give us read access and three months of invoices. You get a written report: what moves, what stays, what it would cost on bare metal, and the risks in plain words. If we say don't migrate, we mean it.
No pitch, no commitment. The report is yours whatever it says.
Request the free auditWhat goes wrong, and what we do about it
The risk register from a real migration plan. If a vendor tells you bare metal has no failure modes, ask them to leave.
Database cutover loses writes
Mitigation: Streaming replication to CloudNativePG for days before cutover, a short read-only window, and row counts and checksums compared before DNS moves.
A single host fails
Mitigation: Three-node control plane, replicated storage (Longhorn) and Postgres replicas on separate hosts. One failed machine raises a ticket and nothing goes down.
Backups that were never restored
Mitigation: Backups go off-site to object storage. We restore into a fresh cluster before go-live and re-test every quarter.
DNS and TLS during cutover
Mitigation: TTLs lowered 72 hours ahead, certificates issued on the new cluster in advance, and the old environment kept warm for a week.
Provider maintenance or network event (rented servers)
Mitigation: Nodes spread across locations where possible, provider status feeds wired to our on-call, and a documented failover for the rare regional event.
Nobody knows how it works after we leave
Mitigation: Every change lives in your Git repo through ArgoCD, runbooks are part of the deliverable, and a hand-off call is included if you cancel.
Three ways to run steady load
| Dimension | Managed cloud | Hire a platform engineer | Bare metal, managed by Fynova |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly infra cost (steady load) | Elastic pricing for load that never flexes; egress and managed databases dominate | Bare-metal prices plus one senior salary | Our own cluster runs at about 15% of its old bill; yours is priced in the audit, plus a retainer scoped to node count |
| Lock-in | High: RDS, ALB, IAM and CloudWatch are proprietary | Depends on what they build | Minimal: open-source parts and your config in your repo |
| Who gets paged at 3am | You, for anything above the managed layer | Them: one person with no holiday cover | Us, with on-call cover scoped in your retainer |
| Time to leave | Months; every managed service is a migration | Weeks, if the docs exist | Cancel the retainer and the cluster keeps running; you inherit the pager |
| Time to production | Already there | 3 to 6 months to hire, then build | 6 to 12 weeks to migrate, plus hardware lead time on-prem |
| Best for | Bursty load, heavy managed-service use, under about $2k a month | Teams that want platform engineering in-house long term | Predictable workloads over about $2k a month without a platform team; hybrid if you need some burst |
What it costs
Illustrative savings, rented servers
$8,000 / month
Steady workloads only. Bursty load, heavy use of managed services, or bills under about $2k a month usually don't pay back. The free audit gives you the real figure.
Hyperscaler today: $8,000
Bare metal, managed by us: $800 – $2,400 · illustrative
Saved per year · illustrative
$67,200 – $86,400
Our migration fee (20%) · illustrative
$13,440 – $17,280
Migration, rented servers
20% of first-year savings
20% of first-year savings, paid from money that was going to a hyperscaler anyway. If there are no savings, there is no migration fee, and the audit would have told you that first.
On-prem and hybrid cost differently, because hardware, power and any elastic layer change the sum. We agree the migration fee as part of the audit.
Ready to see your own number?
Questions people actually ask
Book a 30-minute callWhat does leaving look like?
You own the cluster and every config repo from day one, plus the hardware or the rented-server account. Cancel the retainer and nothing stops working. You inherit the pager.
Is bare metal really safe for production?
It is if someone owns backups, upgrades and failover, and that someone is us. The stack (RKE2, Cilium, CloudNativePG, Longhorn) is what large teams run in-house.
What if our load is spiky, not steady?
Pure bare metal wins on steady load. If you need some burst, a hybrid setup keeps the steady core on bare metal and sends the spikes to a small elastic layer. If the audit shows your load is too uneven for either, we will tell you to stay put.
How long does a migration take?
Six to twelve weeks for a typical startup stack, with cutover in your quiet hours. On-prem adds hardware lead time, which depends on availability. The audit gives you a real number for yours.
What about security and compliance?
RKE2 ships with CIS-hardened defaults, Cilium enforces network policy, secrets are encrypted at rest, and access is via SSO and audited.
Where does the data live?
Where you decide. On rented servers you pick the region, and data residency is a config choice. On-prem it stays in your own building or data centre.
What if the provider has an outage?
Outages happen everywhere, including on hyperscalers. On rented servers we spread nodes across locations where the workload allows, keep backups off the provider, and rehearse the failover. For on-prem, the audit covers site risks such as power and network.
Who supplies the hardware for on-prem?
Your choice of three routes: use hardware you already have, buy your own with our help choosing it, or source it through us, subject to availability.
What happens after you book
A typical cloud exit, end to end. Dates are set in the audit report; the shape rarely changes.
Day 0
Thirty-minute call
Weeks 1–2
Free infrastructure audit
Weeks 3–8
Build and replicate
Weeks 8–12
Production cutover
From month 3
Managed retainer
Thirty-second fit check
Is this you?
Five honest answers. We'd rather tell you to stay put here than on a call.
Is your traffic roughly the same week to week?
Is the infra bill over about $2,000 a month?
Do you lean heavily on proprietary managed services (DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis)?
Do you already have an in-house platform team?
Does compliance require a specific hyperscaler certification?