Container Platform Operational Readiness Assessment
Most container platform failures are not technology failures
When an organisation tells us their container platform is unstable, or their team is constantly firefighting, or they fear making platform changes because of the unknown blast radius... the technology is rarely the culprit. What is actually happening is that the organisation adopted containers at a pace that outstripped their operational readiness.
The same pattern runs in reverse. We also see organisations that have invested heavily in platform engineering, SRE practices, and sophisticated tooling... to run two or three non-critical applications that do not justify any of it. The ROI is negative, not because the technology is wrong, but because the required maturity level was never honestly defined.
Both are maturity problems, not technology problems.
We have been working through this manually with customers for a while, using a slide deck and a consultant to guide the conversation. It worked. It did not scale. So we rebuilt it as a self-service web tool and published it this week.
The assessment covers four dimensions: the technical skills your team actually has, how your IT structure supports containerization in practice, whether your application portfolio is ready for containers, and the tooling and platform infrastructure you have deployed. Strength in one area does not compensate for a gap in another.
It ends with a question most container initiatives never formally answer: what level of maturity does your business actually need? If your containers run non-critical internal tooling, you do not need an SRE team and a multi-cluster GitOps platform. If revenue-critical services depend on your container platform, you cannot afford to operate at an opportunistic maturity level.
The indicators of a gap are almost always present before the outages and the cost blowouts. Engineers spending more time fixing unexpected issues than running the system. Fear to perform required platform upgrades. Monitoring costs spiraling. These are not bad luck. They are predictable consequences of a specific maturity gap.
No account required, results are immediate, and a printable report is available at the end. Run it, and share it with whoever owns the container platform decision in your organisation.