Resilient by Design: Managed Welkin on Azure

Kubernetes offers incredible possibilities for organizations looking to scale and innovate - but we know it also brings challenges, especially for highly regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, and energy, where compliance, security, and operational reliability are non-negotiable. Since day one, Elastisys has focused on building solutions that simplify cloud native operations for precisely these environments. Today, we’re excited to share that Welkin, our fully managed, secure, and compliant Kubernetes platform, is now available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

With Welkin on Azure, you get the best of both worlds: Microsoft’s global reach and scalability, combined with our deep expertise in managing Kubernetes for organizations developing and operating software critical to our society. We take on the operational heavy lifting, so you don’t have to – leaving you free to focus on what matters most: building and growing your business.

Welkin on Azure: Your Solution to Real Kubernetes Challenges

Moving to Kubernetes can be transformative, but it also brings challenges. Organizations handling sensitive data often find the operational overhead of Kubernetes overwhelming. From achieving compliance to ensuring uptime and maintaining security, managing Kubernetes in regulated industries quickly becomes resource-intensive. Welkin on Azure is resilient by design and built to solve these challenges, letting your team focus on innovation – not infrastructure maintenance.

Here’s how Welkin on Azure directly addresses the most common pain points organizations face with Kubernetes.

1. Compliance as a Given, Not a Headache

If you’re in a regulated industry, meeting compliance standards isn’t optional – it’s essential. But keeping up with, and proving that you are keeping up with, NIS2 and other regulations in a cloud native environment can be complicated and time-consuming. For many teams, it becomes a constant operational burden.

How Welkin Helps: Welkin is built to ensure compliance with best practices for security and several legal frameworks, keeping you audit-ready at all times. Welkin on Azure includes compliance-focused documentation to make meeting regulatory standards easier and more efficient. This lets you focus on core projects, knowing your platform is aligned with EU data protection and security requirements.

With Welkin, compliance isn’t an extra burden – it’s built in from day one.

2. High Availability Without Operational Strain

For mission-critical services, uptime is essential. But ensuring high availability in Kubernetes environments requires careful configuration, constant monitoring, and quick responses to issues. For many organizations, managing this level of reliability in-house can drain resources.

How Welkin Helps: Welkin on Azure provides high availability as a given, with 24/7 proactive monitoring, automated failovers and Elastisys’ Security Operations Center (SOC) to keep your services running smoothly. With Welkin, you get the confidence of consistent uptime without the operational strain.

High availability is just part of the Welkin package, so you don’t have to worry about downtime disrupting your services.

3. Security That is Constantly Active

Kubernetes security is complex and always evolving. For organizations managing sensitive data, strong security is essential for protecting trust, reputation, and data integrity. Yet, keeping up with vulnerabilities and applying best practices across the Kubernetes stack is challenging without dedicated resources.

How Welkin Helps: Welkin includes comprehensive security measures, from automated vulnerability scans to access controls and data encryption. Our platform continuously monitors for threats, and our team stays on top of security updates and emerging risks to keep your Kubernetes environment protected.

Security is part of Welkin’s foundation, so you can focus on your applications, not on managing risks.

4. Simplified Operations That Free Up Your Team

The power of Kubernetes lies in its flexibility and scalability, but that often comes at a cost. Keeping a Kubernetes environment running smoothly requires ongoing maintenance, including monitoring, patching, updating, and lifecycle management. With the rapid evolution of Kubernetes and its ecosystem, staying on supported versions and keeping up with frequent updates can become a major challenge for teams, creating a heavy operational burden.

How Welkin Helps: Welkin is a fully managed Kubernetes platform that handles all the day-to-day tasks that would otherwise tie up your engineering team, including lifecycle management. From cluster provisioning, updates, and versioning to scaling and performance optimization, Welkin keeps your environment secure, up-to-date, and efficient. This allows your team to focus on building value, not managing infrastructure.

Let us handle Kubernetes operations, so your team can focus on what drives growth.

5. Scalability That Adapts to Your Needs

The required size of your Kubernetes environment may go up and down over time. Either because you have more customers that demand more capacity or because you have more ongoing development that requires testing temporarily. Scaling up requires additional server capacity in terms of Kubernetes worker nodes, but also in terms of the platform components, such as the monitoring and logging systems. Scaling down helps keep cloud costs to a minimum, without sacrificing the benefits you need.

How Welkin Helps: Welkin’s auto-scaling capabilities are designed to scale seamlessly with your needs. Worker nodes are scaled up and down to fit your requirements, and with our responsibility model, managing the capacity of the platform components around your applications is our responsibility. Your application developers enjoy smooth operations, and a performant platform without spiraling costs. 

With Welkin, your Kubernetes platform scales alongside your ambitions – effortlessly and responsibly.

Key Benefits of Welkin on Azure

Welkin isn’t just another managed Kubernetes service; it’s a platform that’s ready to support the specific needs of organizations developing and operating software critical to our society. By combining Elastisys’s Kubernetes expertise with Azure’s global infrastructure, we’re making it easier than ever for organizations to adopt a Kubernetes platform that’s secure, compliant, and reliable.

• Fully Managed, End-to-End: Elastisys takes care of every aspect of Kubernetes management, from configuration and updates to scaling and security.
• Production-Grade Platform: Welkin provides a secure, production-ready Kubernetes environment built to meet industry standards and best practices.
• Security Hardened: With Welkin’s security-first configuration, you get a Kubernetes environment that meets the highest standards for data protection and access control.
• Multi-Cloud and Open Source: Welkin is built on open-source projects, providing flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in, so you can run your applications on various clouds or on-premises setups as needed.