Technology & Expertise

The technology
behind your infrastructure

From container orchestration to SecOps, from traditional IT to cloud-native applications – eXtreme Hosting masters the full technology spectrum.

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Kubernetes Docker Terraform Ansible GitOps Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack VMware vSphere ArgoCD SIEM Zero Trust PostgreSQL Redis Kafka Nginx HAProxy BGP / OSPF SD-WAN Active Directory

Kubernetes

Enterprise-grade container orchestration for scalable, self-healing workloads – on-premise, hybrid or multi-cloud.

Cluster Management

Management of production-grade K8s clusters with multi-master HA setup, etcd backup and automated node provisioning via kubeadm or RKE2.

  • Multi-master high availability
  • Node auto-scaling (KEDA, HPA, VPA)
  • Rolling updates & zero-downtime deployments
  • Namespaces & RBAC isolation per team

Helm & GitOps

Declarative deployments via Helm charts and GitOps workflows with ArgoCD or FluxCD. Every change is traceable in git.

  • Private Helm repository (ChartMuseum)
  • ArgoCD / FluxCD synchronisation
  • Secrets management (Sealed Secrets, Vault)
  • Progressive delivery (Canary, Blue/Green)

Networking & Service Mesh

Advanced cluster networking with CNI plugins and optional service mesh for mTLS, traffic management and observability.

  • Calico / Cilium CNI
  • Istio / Linkerd service mesh
  • Ingress controllers (Nginx, Traefik)
  • Network policies & microsegmentation

Storage & Persistency

Stateful workloads run reliably thanks to dynamic volume provisioning and distributed storage solutions.

  • Rook-Ceph distributed storage
  • Longhorn block storage
  • CSI drivers for NFS / iSCSI
  • StatefulSets with PVC lifecycle management

Docker & Containers

From Dockerfile to production – we build, secure and manage your container ecosystem.

Image Engineering

Multi-stage builds for minimal image footprints, reproducible builds via BuildKit and automatic vulnerability scanning with Trivy or Snyk.

Private Registry

Self-hosted container registry (Harbor) with image signing (Cosign/Notary), vulnerability scanning and role-based access policies.

Docker Compose & Swarm

For smaller environments: optimised Compose stacks with health checks, restart policies and secret management via Docker Secrets.

Runtime Security

Container hardening via seccomp profiles, AppArmor, read-only filesystems, rootless containers and runtime monitoring with Falco.

Podman & OCI

Daemonless container runtime as a Docker alternative for environments with strict rootless requirements or systemd integration.

Build Pipelines

Automated image builds via CI/CD – from code commit to signed, tested container in your registry, fully auditable.

DevOps & CI/CD

Deliver faster with less risk – automated pipelines, Infrastructure as Code and a culture of continuous improvement.

CI/CD Pipelines

From code commit to production in minutes. We design and manage pipelines in GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure DevOps.

  • Automated testing (unit, integration, e2e)
  • SAST / DAST security scanning in pipeline
  • Dependency vulnerability checks
  • Semantic versioning & changelog generation
  • Multi-environment promotion (dev → staging → prod)

Infrastructure as Code

Your infrastructure as versioned code – reproducible, auditable and scalable. No more manual work, everything declarative.

  • Terraform / OpenTofu for cloud & on-premise
  • Ansible playbooks for configuration management
  • Pulumi for programmatic IaC
  • Terragrunt for DRY multi-environment setup
  • State management (remote backends, locking)

GitOps

Git as single source of truth for both application and infrastructure changes. Automatic synchronisation, drift detection and rollback.

  • ArgoCD application synchronisation
  • FluxCD for multi-tenant environments
  • Automated drift detection & remediation
  • PR-based review workflows
  • Audit trail via git history

Release Engineering

Controlled, risk-free releases with advanced deployment strategies and instant rollback capabilities.

  • Blue/Green deployments
  • Canary releases with traffic splitting
  • Feature flags (LaunchDarkly, Flagsmith)
  • Automated smoke tests post-deploy
  • Incident-driven rollback automation

SecOps & Security

Proactive security at every level – from network to application, from identity management to incident response.

SIEM & Log Management

Centralised log aggregation and real-time correlation of security events with Wazuh, Graylog or the ELK stack. Alerts on suspicious patterns.

  • Wazuh / Elastic SIEM
  • Graylog SIEM integration
  • Automated alert triage
  • Compliance reporting (ISO 27001, NIS2)

Vulnerability Management

Continuous vulnerability scanning of your entire stack – servers, containers, applications and network devices – with automated CVE tracking.

  • Nessus / OpenVAS scanning
  • CVE database integration (own CVE database)
  • Prioritisation by CVSS score
  • Patch compliance reports

Identity & Access Management

Zero-trust access management with MFA, SSO and Privileged Access Management for all systems and services.

  • Keycloak / Authentik SSO
  • LDAP / Active Directory integration
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • JIT access & session recording

Incident Response

Structured incident response with playbooks, automated containment and forensic analysis – available 24/7 for critical incidents.

  • Automated containment
  • Forensic log analysis
  • Post-incident root cause analysis
  • Threat intelligence feeds

Network Security

Next-generation firewalls, IDS/IPS and encrypted traffic from edge to core with zero trust as the architectural principle.

  • pfSense / OPNsense / FortiGate
  • Suricata IDS/IPS
  • WireGuard / IPSec VPN
  • TLS 1.3 everywhere, certificate management

Compliance & Governance

Demonstrable compliance with NIS2, ISO 27001, GDPR and sector-specific standards via automated compliance checks.

  • NIS2 compliance assessment
  • ISO 27001 guidance
  • GDPR data mapping
  • Audit-ready reports

Cloud & Infrastructure

Own hardware in the eXtreme Datacenter as the foundation – complemented by hybrid cloud and multi-cloud capabilities.

Virtualisation

  • VMware vSphere 8 / vCenter
  • VMware HA & DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)
  • vSAN for hyper-converged storage
  • NSX-T for software-defined networking
  • Proxmox VE as open-source alternative
  • KVM / QEMU for bare-metal hypervisors

Storage

  • Ceph distributed storage clusters
  • Pure Storage / NetApp SAN
  • NFS & SMB / CIFS shares
  • Object storage (MinIO / S3-compatible)
  • Automatic tiering (hot / warm / cold)
  • End-to-end encryption at storage level

Networking

  • BGP routing & multi-homing
  • OSPF / IS-IS internal routing
  • VLAN segmentation & 802.1Q trunking
  • SD-WAN (Cisco Meraki / VeloCloud)
  • MPLS & private WAN connections
  • IPv4 & IPv6 dual-stack

Hybrid Cloud

  • AWS, Azure, GCP integrations
  • Private-to-public VPN tunnels
  • Unified identity over on-premise + cloud
  • Cost monitoring & FinOps
  • Cloud-native backup to private storage
  • Disaster recovery to public cloud

Application Infrastructure

The complete stack for modern applications – from web server to message broker, from API gateway to database cluster.

Web & Proxy

  • Nginx (reverse proxy, TLS termination, caching)
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • Caddy (automatic HTTPS)
  • HAProxy (Layer 4 & 7 load balancing)
  • Varnish Cache for HTTP acceleration
  • Cloudflare integration & WAF

Runtime & Frameworks

  • PHP 8.x with PHP-FPM & OPcache
  • Node.js & Deno
  • Python (Django, FastAPI, Flask)
  • Java / Spring Boot
  • .NET / ASP.NET Core
  • Go, Rust for performance-critical services

Databases

  • MySQL / MariaDB (Galera cluster)
  • PostgreSQL (Patroni HA, pgBouncer)
  • MongoDB (replica sets, sharding)
  • Redis (Sentinel, Cluster mode)
  • Elasticsearch & OpenSearch
  • ClickHouse for analytical workloads

Messaging & Streaming

  • Apache Kafka (event streaming)
  • RabbitMQ (AMQP message queuing)
  • NATS for lightweight messaging
  • Redis Pub/Sub & Streams
  • Apache Pulsar
  • Schema registry (Confluent/Karapace)

API & Microservices

  • Kong / Traefik API Gateway
  • GraphQL (Apollo, Hasura)
  • gRPC & protobuf
  • REST API design & versioning
  • OpenAPI / Swagger documentation
  • Rate limiting & quota management

CMS & E-commerce

  • WordPress (managed, optimised)
  • Magento / Adobe Commerce
  • Drupal & Joomla
  • Headless CMS (Strapi, Contentful)
  • WooCommerce, PrestaShop
  • Next.js / Nuxt.js static & SSR

Monitoring & Observability

Full visibility into your environment – metrics, logs, traces and alerts in real time.

Metrics
Prometheus Grafana Thanos VictoriaMetrics Node Exporter Alertmanager

Long-term metrics storage, custom dashboards per team and SLA-based alert rules.

Logging
Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana (ELK) Loki Fluentd Graylog

Centralised log aggregation with full searchability, retention policies and compliance exports.

Tracing
Jaeger Tempo OpenTelemetry Zipkin

Distributed tracing for microservice architectures – trace latency bottlenecks down to request level.

Uptime & Synthetics
Uptime Kuma Blackbox Exporter Checkly PagerDuty

External uptime monitoring, synthetic transactions and escalated alerting via on-call rotations.

Server & Workplace Management

Not everything needs to be cloud-native. We also manage classic server and workplace environments with modern tools and methods.

Windows Server

Active Directory, Group Policy, WSUS, Hyper-V, Windows Server 2019/2022 management, licence optimisation and migrations to Windows Server Core.

Linux Administration

Debian, Ubuntu, Rocky Linux, RHEL – management of production fleets via Ansible, automated patching and hardening in accordance with CIS benchmarks.

Email & Collaboration

Microsoft 365, Exchange on-premise, Postfix / Dovecot, anti-spam filtering (SpamAssassin, Rspamd), DKIM/DMARC/SPF configuration.

Patch Management

Automated patch cycles for servers, network devices and applications – with test windows, rollback options and reporting.

Hardware Lifecycle

Procurement, installation, warranty tracking and end-of-life planning. We manage your server estate from purchase to secure data destruction.

DNS & DHCP

Management of internal and external DNS zones (BIND9, PowerDNS), DHCP pools and PKI (internal CA for certificate issuance).

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Data loss is not an option. We guarantee recovery of your environment within agreed RTO/RPO objectives.

3-2-1
Backup rule

3 copies, 2 different media, 1 offsite – always guaranteed.

15 min
RPO minimum

Recovery Point Objective to 15-minute precision for critical systems.

4 hours
RTO standard

Recovery Time Objective of 4 hours for standard environments, 1 hour for premium.

AES-256
Encryption

All backups encrypted in transit and at rest – encryption keys held by the client.

Veeam Backup

VM-level backups with instant recovery, SureBackup verification and direct restore to production or sandbox environment.

Bacula / Bareos

Open-source backup for mixed environments – Linux, Windows, databases – with deduplication and remote tape emulation.

Database Backups

Logical and physical dumps of MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and MSSQL with point-in-time recovery via WAL archiving.

Replication & HA

Synchronous and asynchronous database replication, VM replication to secondary site and active-passive cluster failover.

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Every environment is different. Let us analyse your current situation and put together a roadmap that fits your goals and budget.