Unifying Five Deployment Targets Into One

A defense AI company had accumulated five incompatible deployment environments: inconsistent local dev setups, AWS public cloud on ECS Fargate (with no logging), AWS GovCloud on EC2, airgapped on-premise servers requiring engineer travel for every update, and a hybrid edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson hardware.

We unified everything onto k3s — a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that runs identically from a developer laptop to an airgapped server to an edge device. One set of manifests. One CI/CD pipeline. One operational runbook.

Customer self-service deployments replaced expensive on-site engineer visits. New developers got production-equivalent environments on day one. Platform deployed across US DoD (GovCloud), on-prem airgapped servers, AWS public cloud, and limited-capacity edge devices.