kontrolplane kontrolplane is a platform engineering consultancy based in the netherlands. we design, build, and hand over cloud infrastructure, kubernetes platforms, ci/cd pipelines, and observability stacks - as code, documented, and ready for your team to own.
we have strong opinions on how infrastructure should be built - but we hold them loosely. every team is different. we adapt our approach to your context, your constraints, and your people. what we won't compromise on: everything ships as code, everything is tested, and everything is documented.
we don't hand off between discovery, design, and delivery. the same people who scope the work write the terraform, review the prs, and run the handover. no project managers, no layers. you talk to the engineers doing the work.
every engagement ends with a handover: runbooks, documentation, architecture decisions recorded, and a team that understands what was built and why. we're not interested in creating dependency - we want you to not need us after we're done.
the best infrastructure is invisible. we pick proven tools, well-understood patterns, and battle-tested approaches. we're not here to pad a resume with bleeding-edge tech - we're here to build systems your on-call team won't dread at 2am.
our engagements are small, focused, and written down. we name the problem, scope the work, and ship in the open. here's the shape of a typical one - adjusted to fit.
a single written brief: what we'll change, what we won't, and how we'll know it worked. no 40-slide decks.
architecture, iac modules, pipeline shapes, and runbooks drafted in your repo, reviewed by your engineers.
we implement in small, reviewable pull requests. every change tested, documented, and deployable independently.
a walkthrough, a runbook, a handover session, and a short report on what's left for the roadmap.
