VKS Platform Services

Quick App & Platform Assessment

Legacy systems don’t fail overnight—they accumulate risk over time.

The Quick App & Platform Assessment helps IT managers quickly understand what’s running, where the risk lies, and what it means for the business. With minimal effort from your team and no disruption to production systems, you get a clear, practical view of your modernization priorities.

 

Using a purpose‑built, read‑only appliance, we rapidly analyze your application portfolio to deliver clear, actionable insight. We make technical debt, compliance gaps, and modernization risk visible—and turn them into a prioritized, practical roadmap aligned to your business priorities.

 

The result is a rapid, evidence-based foundation for modernization planning — without the overhead of a lengthy engagement or the risk of granting broad access to sensitive systems.

Application Assessment

Legacy applications carry hidden costs—growing technical debt, outdated technologies, and rising risk to business continuity. Our Application Assessment gives development leaders a clear, realistic view of where their applications stand today and what it will take to modernize them.

 

Through interviews, workshops, documentation review, and production observation, we capture the technical and business context needed for confident decision making. We analyze code, commit history, and project data alongside organizational priorities—using AI driven effort estimation and risk scoring to deliver evidence based recommendations, not guesswork.

 

You get a complete picture of application health, cost, and modernization options—delivered through clear findings, risk aware estimates, and a prioritized roadmap, with an implementation SOW for teams ready to move forward.

 

This Service Is a Strong Fit When

• Technical debt has reached a point where maintaining the application is becoming unsustainable
• Core technologies are out of date and represent a growing operational or security risk
• There is executive support for modernization and a need to justify and scope the investment

VKS Quick Start

Get VMware Kubernetes Service up and running fast—with the configuration, tooling, and workflows your teams need from day one. VKS Quick Start delivers a production‑ready platform with initial workloads deployed and CI/CD integrated, so developers can start delivering immediately.

 

We deliver production‑ready VKS cluster deployment, integrate CI/CD pipelines, and guide initial workload deployment and validation—so your platform is ready before you scale. From there, we help you unlock VKS‑native capabilities and lay the foundation for a self‑service developer platform that reduces operational overhead over time.

Ideal For

• Organizations standing up VKS for the first time and needing a structured, expert-led activation
• IT teams that want to establish strong CI/CD foundations alongside the platform rather than retrofitting them later
• Teams with a longer-term goal of enabling self-service infrastructure for developers
• Organizations looking to modernize their pipelines and reduce manual overhead from day one
• Teams needing rapid time-to-first-workload

GitOps Implementation

With VKS, GitOps is natively available to establish a secure, automated deployment model. We can help you design, implement, and adopt GitOps.

 

GitOps provides:

• Declarative configuration – Infrastructure and application state defined in Git
• Version control – Full change history with rollback capability
• Automation – CI/CD pipelines apply changes consistently
• Continuous reconciliation – Drift detection and self‑healing enforcement

GitOps delivers:

• Consistency & reliability across environments
• Improved collaboration through Git‑based workflows
• Enhanced security & auditability with reduced production access
• Faster deployments via automated updates
• Scalable operations using Git as the single source of truth

Workload Migration

Move your containerized workloads to VMware Kubernetes Service without disrupting the development workflows your teams depend on. Our migration services handle the complexity of transitioning from your current Kubernetes environment to VKS — including the CI/CD pipeline updates needed to keep your delivery pipelines running smoothly throughout and after the transition.

 

We provide comprehensive migration planning and execution for containerized workloads, with targeted CI/CD pipeline adjustments and optimization to ensure your existing tooling deploys seamlessly to VKS. Every migration includes rollback planning and risk mitigation strategies to protect your operations and give your team confidence at every stage of the process.

 

Best fit for teams that:

• Are moving containerized workloads from OpenShift, Rancher, or other Kubernetes platforms to VKS
• Need their CI/CD pipelines updated and validated for a new VKS environment
• Want a structured, low-risk migration approach with built-in contingency planning

Workload Replatforming

Streamline your migration to VKS — whether you’re moving applications off traditional virtual machines or transitioning from an existing Kubernetes distribution, such as OpenShift or Rancher, which uses those platform’s proprietary services. Our replatforming services minimize disruption and accelerate your path to a modern, unified VKS environment.

 

We provide end-to-end assessment and execution for containerizing VM-based workloads or a structured migration from OpenShift, Rancher, or other Kubernetes distributions to VKS using proven best practices. Throughout the process, we deliver application modernization guidance to ensure your workloads are optimized for cloud-native deployment on VKS.

 

Best fit for teams that are:

• Running applications on virtual machines who are ready to adopt containerization on VKS
• Looking to consolidate from multiple Kubernetes platforms onto a standardized VKS environment
• Teams migrating from OpenShift or Rancher who want a structured, low-risk transition with expert guidance

Advisory Services for VKS

Scaling a VKS platform practice takes more than headcount — it takes the right expertise applied at the right moments. Our platform architects work alongside your team to close capability gaps, accelerate platform maturity, and ensure your architects and engineers are making informed decisions before those decisions become expensive to reverse.

 

Engagements bring experienced VKS platform architects into your planning and delivery cycles — providing hands-on architecture guidance, reviewing designs against production-proven best practices, and transferring knowledge directly to your staff. Rather than owning the work on your behalf, our consultants equip your team to own it with confidence.

 

Best fit for teams that are:

• Expanding VKS adoption faster than internal expertise can scale
• Facing architecture decisions with significant long-term platform implications
• Looking to upskill existing staff rather than build a permanent dependency on outside resources

Support Services for VKS

Expert support services to help your team achieve and maintain the reliability and operational goals of your VMware Kubernetes Service platform — including 24×7 help desk coverage to augment your existing staff when you need it most. We can identify and systematically reduce operational toil, freeing your team from manual remediation cycles so they can focus on higher-value work.

 

Best fit for teams that are:

• IT teams seeking operational expertise to strengthen VKS platform reliability
• Organizations looking to establish or mature structured support and incident management practices
• Teams that need on-demand or around-the-clock assistance to supplement in-house resources

Healthcare & Higher Education – Private Cloud Kubernetes on VCF Challenge:

A leading academic medical health system partnered with Capstone IT Solutions to modernize its on‑premises infrastructure and enable secure application deployment to a private cloud after an unsuccessful public cloud migration and aging hardware challenges.

 

Solution & Impact:

Capstone completed and integrated VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) and AVI Load Balancer into an existing vSphere and NSX environment while meeting strict healthcare uptime requirements. To ensure operational visibility, Prometheus and Grafana were deployed for interim monitoring, followed by Aria Operations with the Kubernetes Management Pack for long‑term observability.

 

Results:

• Fully operational VCF and VKS environment
• Applications actively deploying to private cloud
• Improved visibility, stability, and confidence in Kubernetes operations
• Ongoing success supported by Capstone’s supplemental engineering services

Outcome:

A scalable, resilient private cloud foundation enabling modernization without compromising reliability.

Large International Point-of-Sale Operator

Challenge:

The customer needed to rapidly migrate a critical line‑of‑business application to Kubernetes to maintain vendor support while rebuilding a corrupted VKS environment and AVI Load Balancer under aggressive timelines.

Solution & Impact:

Capstone IT Solutions rapidly deployed a new AVI Load Balancer and VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) within a dedicated vSphere environment, enabling successful validation of the customer’s critical LOB application and completing the platform well ahead of migration deadlines.

Outcome:

• Rapid rebuild and deployment of AVI Load Balancer and
• VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS)
• Corrupted Kubernetes environment fully remediated and validated
• Discovery and new deployment completed within weeks
• Enabled on‑time migration of a critical line‑of‑business application
• Accelerated application deployment to the private cloud
• 5‑year VCF entitlement renewal secured
• Customer operations team enabled through hands‑on pairing sessions