Infrastructure modernization: From virtual machines to Kubernetes
Keypro brings 30 years of software development experience to the table. With that depth comes both expertise and the natural evolution of technology stacks.
Like any mature software company, we continuously modernize our systems to leverage new capabilities while maintaining the stability our customers depend on. This ongoing evolution means balancing innovation with reliability as we adapt to changing technological landscapes.
Today, Keypro operates its SaaS platform across multiple deployment environments, including on-premises infrastructure and cloud platforms. We also support enterprise customers who self-host our products, often with customized components and specialized integrations. While containerization has been central to our architecture for years, managing containers at scale — particularly in diverse environments — presents challenges in orchestration, deployment, and maintaining configuration consistency. These complexities can create friction that slows our pace of innovation.
The path forward was clear: modernize our CI/CD pipeline, enhance our infrastructure as code practices, and migrate to Kubernetes for orchestration at scale. While the technical roadmap is straightforward, the real transformation goes deeper. We're evolving how our engineering teams think about building products — shifting from managing infrastructure to focusing on delivering value, from solving individual deployment challenges to designing for systematic scalability.
We began scaling our Kubernetes runtime in 2024 and transitioned our first shared production workloads in early 2025. Now we're executing a comprehensive migration of all SaaS workloads to Kubernetes across our cloud platforms — a strategic initiative that will continue through the coming months.
The migration extends far beyond container orchestration. We've reimplemented observability with modern tooling like Prometheus and Grafana, alongside cloud-native solutions. Secret and certificate management required a complete architectural redesign. These aren't just implementation details — they're critical foundations that determine the success of our entire platform evolution.
Kubernetes delivers on its technical promises — that's well established. But technology adoption is ultimately about people. While some engineers embrace new tools eagerly, others value the reliability of familiar systems. A platform migration reshapes daily workflows: how we access services, monitor performance, and troubleshoot issues. This fundamental shift in how teams work creates natural resistance that every organization must navigate.
This is why platform leaders must also be educators — listening to teams, understanding their workflows, and guiding them through change. The best tools are worthless if they're too complex to use effectively. Our engineers' success determines our platform's success.
The rewards justify the effort: drastically faster deployments, self-healing systems, streamlined debugging, granular access controls, and a unified development experience. Most importantly, our teams can focus on building features instead of fighting infrastructure.
For our customers, this translates to tangible benefits: more frequent feature releases, improved platform reliability, and fewer service interruptions. The same infrastructure that empowers our engineers to work more efficiently ensures our customers experience a more stable, responsive product that evolves faster to meet their needs.
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