Best Cluster Management Software for Microsoft Azure
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This a list of Cluster Management software that integrates with Microsoft Azure. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Microsoft Azure. View the products that work with Microsoft Azure in the table below.
What is Cluster Management Software for Microsoft Azure?
Cluster management software is specialized software designed to manage and orchestrate groups of interconnected computers, known as clusters, that work together to perform complex tasks. It provides a centralized interface for deploying, monitoring, scaling, and maintaining applications and workloads across multiple nodes. The software ensures resource allocation, load balancing, and fault tolerance to maximize efficiency and reliability. It is commonly used in high-performance computing, data centers, and cloud environments to streamline operations and optimize infrastructure usage. By automating tasks and providing real-time insights, cluster management software enhances operational efficiency and simplifies the complexities of managing distributed systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Cluster Management software for Microsoft Azure currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Appvia Wayfinder
Appvia
Appvia Wayfinder is a trusted infrastructure operations platform designed to increase developer velocity. It enables platform teams to operate at scale by providing self-service guardrails for standardisation. Supporting integration with AWS, Azure, and more, Wayfinder offers self-service provisioning of environments and cloud resources using a catalogue of manageable Terraform modules. Its built-in principles of isolation and least privilege ensure secure default configurations, while granting fine-grained control to platform teams over underlying CRDs. It offers centralized control and visibility over clusters, apps, and cloud resources across various clouds. Additionally, Wayfinder's cloud automation capability supports safe deployments and upgrades through the use of ephemeral clusters and namespaces. Choose Appvia Wayfinder for streamlined, secure, and efficient infrastructure management.Starting Price: $0.035 US per vcpu per hour -
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Loft
Loft Labs
Most Kubernetes platforms let you spin up and manage Kubernetes clusters. Loft doesn't. Loft is an advanced control plane that runs on top of your existing Kubernetes clusters to add multi-tenancy and self-service capabilities to these clusters to get the full value out of Kubernetes beyond cluster management. Loft provides a powerful UI and CLI but under the hood, it is 100% Kubernetes, so you can control everything via kubectl and the Kubernetes API, which guarantees great integration with existing cloud-native tooling. Building open-source software is part of our DNA. Loft Labs is CNCF and Linux Foundation member. Loft allows companies to empower their employees to spin up low-cost, low-overhead Kubernetes environments for a variety of use cases.Starting Price: $25 per user per month -
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Komodor
Komodor
Komodor takes the complexity out of K8s troubleshooting, providing all of the tools you need to troubleshoot with confidence. Komodor monitors your entire k8s stack, identifies issues, uncovers their root cause and delivers the context you need to troubleshoot efficiently and independently. Auto-identify k8s anomalies, failed deploys, misconfigurations, bottlenecks and other health issues. Spot emerging problems before they spread out and affect the end-users. Use ready-made playbooks to streamline root cause analysis, sidestep disruptive escalations and save hours of precious dev time. Provide your teams with straightforward remediation instructions that turn every responder into a troubleshooting expert.Starting Price: $10 per node per month -
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Azure Batch
Microsoft
Batch runs the applications that you use on workstations and clusters. It’s easy to cloud-enable your executable files and scripts to scale out. Batch provides a queue to receive the work that you want to run and executes your applications. Describe the data that need to be moved to the cloud for processing, how the data should be distributed, what parameters to use for each task, and the command to start the process. Think about it like an assembly line with multiple applications. With Batch, you can share data between steps and manage the execution as a whole. Batch processes jobs on demand, not on a predefined schedule, so your customers run jobs in the cloud when they need to. Manage who can access Batch and how many resources they can use, and ensure that requirements such as encryption are met. Rich monitoring helps you to know what’s going on and identify problems.Starting Price: $3.1390 per month -
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Windows Admin Center
Microsoft
Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based management toolset that enables IT administrators to manage Windows Servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 or later PCs without the need for cloud connectivity. It serves as the modern evolution of traditional in-box management tools like Server Manager and Microsoft Management Console (MMC), offering a streamlined and integrated experience. Provides a unified interface to manage multiple server environments, including physical, virtual, on-premises, and cloud-based servers, facilitating tasks such as configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Seamlessly extends on-premises deployments to Azure, enabling hybrid management scenarios. This integration allows for the utilization of Azure services like backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and update management directly through the Windows Admin Center interface.Starting Price: $1,176 one-time payment -
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Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Microsoft
Easily handle multicluster scenarios for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters such as workload propagation, north-south load balancing (for traffic flowing into member clusters), and upgrade orchestration across multiple clusters. Fleet cluster enables centralized management of all your clusters at scale. The managed hub cluster takes care of the upgrades and Kubernetes cluster configuration for you. Kubernetes configuration propagation lets you use policies and overrides to disseminate objects across fleet member clusters. North-south load balancer orchestrates traffic flow across workloads deployed in multiple member clusters of the fleet. Group any combination of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to simplify multi-cluster workflows like Kubernetes configuration propagation and multi-cluster networking. Fleet requires a hub Kubernetes cluster to store configurations for placement policy and multicluster networking.Starting Price: $0.10 per cluster per hour -
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Gloo Mesh
Solo.io
Today's Kubernetes environments need help in scaling, securing and observing modern cloud-native applications. Gloo Mesh, based on the industry's leading Istio service mesh, simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster management of service mesh for containers and virtual machines. Gloo Mesh helps platform engineering teams to reduce costs, reduce risks, and improve application agility. Gloo Mesh is a modular component of Gloo Platform. The service mesh allows for application-aware network tasks to be managed independently from the application, adding observability, security, and reliability to distributed applications. By introducing the service mesh to your applications, you can: Simplify the application layer Provide more insights into your traffic Increase the security of your application -
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Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Microsoft
Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience. Highly available, fully managed public and private clusters, automated operations, and over-the-air platform upgrades. Take advantage of the enhanced user interface for application topology and builds in the web console to build, deploy, configure, and visualize containerized applications and cluster resources more easily.Starting Price: $0.44 per hour -
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Azure HPC
Microsoft
Azure high-performance computing (HPC). Power breakthrough innovations, solve complex problems, and optimize your compute-intensive workloads. Build and run your most demanding workloads in the cloud with a full stack solution purpose-built for HPC. Deliver supercomputing power, interoperability, and near-infinite scalability for compute-intensive workloads with Azure Virtual Machines. Empower decision-making and deliver next-generation AI with industry-leading Azure AI and analytics services. Help secure your data and applications and streamline compliance with multilayered, built-in security and confidential computing. -
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SafeKit
Eviden
Evidian SafeKit is a high-availability software solution designed to ensure the redundancy of critical applications on Windows and Linux platforms. It provides an all-in-one approach by integrating load balancing, synchronous real-time file replication, automatic application failover, and automated failback after a server failure, all within a single software product. This eliminates the need for additional hardware components such as network load balancers or shared disks, as well as the necessity for enterprise editions of operating systems and databases. SafeKit's software clustering facilitates the creation of mirror clusters with real-time data replication and failover, farm clusters with load balancing and failover, and advanced architectures like farm+mirror clusters and active-active clusters. Its shared-nothing architecture simplifies deployment, even in remote sites, by avoiding the complexities associated with shared disk clusters. -
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Rocky Linux
Ctrl IQ, Inc.
CIQ empowers people to do amazing things by providing innovative and stable software infrastructure solutions for all computing needs. From the base operating system, through containers, orchestration, provisioning, computing, and cloud applications, CIQ works with every part of the technology stack to drive solutions for customers and communities with stable, scalable, secure production environments. CIQ is the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux, and the creator of the next generation federated computing stack. - Rocky Linux, open, Secure Enterprise Linux - Apptainer, application Containers for High Performance Computing - Warewulf, cluster Management and Operating System Provisioning - HPC2.0, the Next Generation of High Performance Computing, a Cloud Native Federated Computing Platform - Traditional HPC, turnkey computing stack for traditional HPC -
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Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations. Achieve effortless management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API, unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver, and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location. Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Kubernetes no matter the location, from private and public cloud to edge locations. Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network, and application firewall.
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes controls clusters and applications from a single console, with built-in security policies. Extend the value of Red Hat OpenShift by deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across multiple clusters at scale. Red Hat’s solution ensures compliance, monitors usage and maintains consistency. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is included with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, a complete set of powerful, optimized tools to secure, protect, and manage your apps. Run your operations from anywhere that Red Hat OpenShift runs, and manage any Kubernetes cluster in your fleet. Speed up application development pipelines with self-service provisioning. Deploy legacy and cloud-native applications quickly across distributed clusters. Free up IT departments with self-service cluster deployment that automatically delivers applications.
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Pipeshift
Pipeshift
Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform designed to facilitate the building, deployment, and scaling of open source AI components, including embeddings, vector databases, large language models, vision models, and audio models, across any cloud environment or on-premises infrastructure. The platform offers end-to-end orchestration, ensuring seamless integration and management of AI workloads, and is 100% cloud-agnostic, providing flexibility in deployment. With enterprise-grade security, Pipeshift addresses the needs of DevOps and MLOps teams aiming to establish production pipelines in-house, moving beyond experimental API providers that may lack privacy considerations. Key features include an enterprise MLOps console for managing various AI workloads such as fine-tuning, distillation, and deployment; multi-cloud orchestration with built-in auto-scalers, load balancers, and schedulers for AI models; and Kubernetes cluster management.
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