Best Container Management Software for Kubernetes - Page 2

Low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes, for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, Edge and IoT. MicroK8s automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore. When you lose a cluster database node, another node is promoted. No admin needed for your bulletproof edge. MicroK8s is small, with sensible defaults that ‘just work’. A quick install, easy upgrades and great security make it perfect for micro clouds and edge computing. Full enterprise support available, with no subscription needed. Optional 24/7 support with 10 year security maintenance. Under the cell tower. On the racecar. On satellites or everyday appliances, MicroK8s delivers the full Kubernetes experience on IoT and micro clouds. Fully containerized deployment with compressed over-the-air updates for ultra-reliable operations. MicroK8s will apply security updates automatically by default, defer them if you want. Upgrade to a newer version of Kubernetes with a single command. It’s really that easy.

Configure policies to manage and govern cloud-native environments without impacting agility or speed. Allocate budgets to individual teams or projects, keep track of costs, govern resource usage and generate real-time alerts for cost overruns. Track the complete asset life cycle from ownership and creation to modification and termination. Understand detailed resource consumption patterns and costs associated with decentralized development teams while engaging developers in creating value with each and every deployment. Ensure microservices, containers, pods, and Kubernetes clusters have the most efficient resource footprint possible without compromising reliability, availability, or performance. Replex allows you to right size Kubernetes nodes and cloud instances based on historical and real-time utilization data and is a single source of truth for all performance-critical metrics.

Run, manage, control and secure the apps, data and IT that run your business, from edge to cloud. HPE Ezmeral advances digital transformation initiatives by shifting time and resources from IT operations to innovations. Modernize your apps. Simplify your Ops. And harness data to go from insights to impact. Accelerate time-to-value by deploying Kubernetes at scale with integrated persistent data storage for app modernization on bare metal or VMs, in your data center, on any cloud or at the edge. Harness data and get insights faster by operationalizing the end-to-end process to build data pipelines. Bring DevOps agility to the machine learning lifecycle, and deliver a unified data fabric. Boost efficiency and agility in IT Ops with automation and advanced artificial intelligence. And provide security and control to eliminate risk and reduce costs. HPE Ezmeral Container Platform provides an enterprise-grade platform to deploy Kubernetes at scale for a wide range of use cases.

Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables you to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on-premises and automation tooling for cluster lifecycle support. EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro (the same Kubernetes that powers EKS on AWS.) EKS Anywhere saves you the complexity of buying or building your own management tooling to create EKS Distro clusters, configure the operating environment, update software, and handle backup and recovery. EKS Anywhere enables you to automate cluster management, reduce support costs, and eliminate the redundant effort of using multiple open source or 3rd party tools for operating Kubernetes clusters. EKS Anywhere is fully supported by AWS.

Power your modern applications with VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Run the same K8s across data center, public cloud and edge for a consistent, secure experience for all development teams. Keep your workloads properly isolated and secure. Get a complete, easy-to-upgrade Kubernetes runtime with preintegrated and validated components. Deploy and scale all clusters without downtime. Apply security fixes fast. Run your containerized applications on a certified Kubernetes distribution, bolstered by the global Kubernetes community. Use your existing data center tools and workflows to give developers secure, self-serve access to conformant Kubernetes clusters in your VMware private cloud, and extend the same consistent Kubernetes runtime across your public cloud and edge environments. Simplify operations of large-scale, multicluster Kubernetes environments, and keep your workloads properly isolated. Automate lifecycle management to reduce your risk and shift your focus to more strategic work.

SUSE Rancher Prime addresses the needs of DevOps teams deploying applications with Kubernetes and IT operations delivering enterprise-critical services. SUSE Rancher Prime supports any CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. For on-premises workloads, we offer the RKE. We support all the public cloud distributions, including EKS, AKS, and GKE. At the edge, we offer K3s. SUSE Rancher Prime provides simple, consistent cluster operations, including provisioning, version management, visibility and diagnostics, monitoring and alerting, and centralized audit. SUSE Rancher Prime lets you automate processes and applies a consistent set of user access and security policies for all your clusters, no matter where they’re running. SUSE Rancher Prime provides a rich catalogue of services for building, deploying, and scaling containerized applications, including app packaging, CI/CD, logging, monitoring, and service mesh.

K3s is a highly available, certified Kubernetes distribution designed for production workloads in unattended, resource-constrained, remote locations or inside IoT appliances. Both ARM64 and ARMv7 are supported with binaries and multiarch images available for both. K3s works great from something as small as a Raspberry Pi to an AWS a1.4xlarge 32GiB server. Lightweight storage backend based on sqlite3 as the default storage mechanism. etcd3, MySQL, Postgres also still available. Secure by default with reasonable defaults for lightweight environments. Simple but powerful “batteries-included” features have been added, such as: a local storage provider, a service load balancer, a Helm controller, and the Traefik ingress controller. Operation of all Kubernetes control plane components is encapsulated in a single binary and process. This allows K3s to automate and manage complex cluster operations like distributing certificates.

kpt is a package-centric toolchain that enables a WYSIWYG configuration authoring, automation, and delivery experience, which simplifies managing Kubernetes platforms and KRM-driven infrastructure at scale by manipulating declarative configuration as data, separated from the code that transforms it. Most Kubernetes users either manage their resources using conventional imperative graphical user interfaces, command-line tools (kubectl), and automation (e.g., operators) that operate directly against Kubernetes APIs, or declarative configuration tools, such as Helm, Terraform, cdk8s, or one of the dozens of other tools. At a small scale, this is largely driven by preference and familiarity. As companies expand the number of Kubernetes development and production clusters they use, creating and enforcing consistent configurations and security policies across a growing environment becomes difficult.

Fast-track your way to production-ready Kubernetes and simplify lifecycle management with Nutanix Kubernetes Engine, an enterprise Kubernetes management solution. NKE empowers you to deliver and manage an end-to-end, production-ready Kubernetes environment with push-button simplicity while preserving a native user experience. Deploy and configure production-ready Kubernetes clusters in minutes, as opposed to days or weeks. Automatically configure and deploy your Kubernetes clusters for high availability through NKE’s simple, streamlined workflow. Every NKE Kubernetes cluster is deployed with a Nutanix full-featured CSI driver, which natively integrates with Volumes Block Storage and Files Storage to easily provide persistent storage for containerized applications. Add Kubernetes worker nodes with a single click. When additional physical resources are needed, expanding the cluster is just as simple.

Delight developers and operations teams with the self-service and automation they need, with the right mix of standardization and control that the business requires. Centrally specify and manage configurations (in Git) for clusters encompassing security policy and software add-ons such as service mesh, ingress controllers, monitoring, logging, and backup and restore solutions. Blueprints and add-on lifecycle management can easily be applied to greenfield and brownfield clusters centrally. Blueprints can also be shared across multiple teams for centralized governance of add-ons deployed across the fleet. For environments requiring agile development cycles, users can go from a Git push to an updated application on managed clusters in seconds — 100+ times a day. This is particularly suited for developer environments where updates are very frequent.

Kata Containers is Apache 2 licensed software consisting of two main components: the Kata agent, and the Kata Containerd shim v2 runtime. It also packages a Linux kernel and versions of QEMU, Cloud Hypervisor and Firecracker hypervisors. Kata Containers are as light and fast as containers and integrate with the container management layers—including popular orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (k8s)—while also delivering the security advantages of VMs. Kata Containers supports Linux (host and guest) for now. On the host side, we have installation instructions for several popular distributions. We also have out-of-the-box support for Clear Linux, Fedora, and CentOS 7 rootfs images through the OSBuilder which can also be used to roll your own guest images.

AppFactor significantly reduces the cost and labor that would otherwise be required for a manual application modernization project. Post modernization, our platform empowers teams to deploy, operate, and maintain existing applications more efficiently and cost-effectively, Increase engineering velocity, level-up your business-critical applications, streamline innovation, and gain a competitive edge. Quickly transform legacy physical and virtual server-based apps into cloud-native form to kickstart iterative modernization of architecture, deployment, and improvements. Intelligently persist runtime and process-to-process relationships from multiple server hosts into cloud-native architectures. Accelerate and induct legacy apps into CI/CD pipelines. Remove older physical and virtual infrastructure along with having to maintain operating systems. Simplify cloud migration by modernizing as you go to more mature cloud services such as Kubernetes platforms or PaaS.

Spectro Cloud’s Palette is a comprehensive Kubernetes management platform designed to simplify and unify the deployment, operation, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments—from edge to cloud to data center. It provides full-stack, declarative orchestration, enabling users to blueprint cluster configurations with consistency and flexibility. The platform supports multi-cluster, multi-distro Kubernetes environments, delivering lifecycle management, granular access controls, cost visibility, and optimization. Palette integrates seamlessly with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and popular Kubernetes services such as EKS, OpenShift, and Rancher. With robust security features including FIPS and FedRAMP compliance, Palette addresses needs of government and regulated industries. It offers flexible deployment options—self-hosted, SaaS, or airgapped—ensuring organizations can choose the best fit for their infrastructure and security requirements.

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.

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies platform engineering by reducing operational complexity and establishing consistency across any environment. All the components needed for production-ready Kubernetes in a fully integrated turnkey solution. Deploy in the public cloud, on-premises, or at the edge with or without Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure. Composed of upstream CNCF projects that are fully integrated and validated, but easily replaced so you’re not locked in. Simplify complex microservices management while enhancing observability and security. Add comprehensive multi-cluster management capabilities to your public cloud Kubernetes deployments without needing to migrate to a different runtime. Leverage AI and get the most out of Kubernetes with anomaly detection with root cause analysis and an intelligent chatbot to provide best practices and drive consistency.

Managing Kubernetes shouldn't be a headache. With Syself Autopilot, both beginners and experts can deploy and maintain enterprise-grade clusters with ease. Say goodbye to downtime and complexity—our platform ensures automated upgrades, self-healing capabilities, and GitOps compatibility. Whether you're running on bare metal or cloud infrastructure, Syself Autopilot is designed to handle your needs, all while maintaining GDPR-compliant data protection. Syself Autopilot integrates with leading DevOps and infrastructure solutions, allowing you to build and scale applications effortlessly. Our platform supports: - Argo CD, Flux (GitOps & CI/CD) - MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse (Databases) - Grafana, Istio, Redis, NATS (Monitoring & Service Mesh) Need additional solutions? Our team helps you deploy, configure, and optimize your infrastructure for peak performance.

Sangfor Kubernetes Engine (SKE) is a container management platform built on upstream Kubernetes, fully integrated into Sangfor HCI and managed by Sangfor Cloud Platform, that provides a unified environment for running and managing both containers and virtual machines with simplicity, reliability, and security. Ideal for deploying new containerized applications, transitioning to microservices architectures, or consolidating existing VM workloads, SKE offers centralized account, permission, monitoring, and alert management across all workloads. Users can automate the creation of production‑ready Kubernetes clusters in as little as 15 minutes, eliminating manual OS installation and configuration, and leverage a rich set of out‑of‑the‑box components for rapid application deployment, visualized monitoring, diverse log types, and built‑in high‑performance load balancing.

Accelerate your development by using a storage layer that works natively with your Kubernetes environment. Focus on running your application, while we make sure you have the persistent volumes that give you the scale and stability you need. Reduce complexity and increase efficiency in your app modernization journey by truly integrating stateful storage into Kubernetes. Run your database or any persistent workload in a Kubernetes environment without having to worry about managing the storage layer. Ondat gives you the ability to deliver a consistent storage layer across any platform. We give you the persistent volumes to allow you to run your own databases without paying for expensive hosted options. Take back control of your data layer in Kubernetes. Kubernetes-native storage with dynamic provisioning that works as it should. Fully API-driven, tight integration with your containerized applications.

Prioritize your top business-critical risks with clear and actionable insights. Continuously harden your Kubernetes availability. Learn from others and avoid repeating their mistakes. Eliminate risks before they cause incidents. Stay up to date with visibility across all your infrastructure layers. Catalog containers, clusters, add-ons, and dependencies. Consolidate insights across clouds, on-prem, and more. Get alerted about all EOL and incompatible versions. Never use spreadsheets or custom scripts again. Chkk’s mission is to enable developers to proactively prevent incidents from happening by learning from others and not repeating known mistakes. Chkk's collective learning technology mines and curates known errors, failures, and disruptions that the Kubernetes community (comprising users/operators, cloud providers, and vendors) has encountered, ensuring that past mistakes are not repeated.

Kubevious helps you avoid breaking apps and producing bad or conflicting configurations. It brings operational safety to your apps and makes your teams efficient and successful, without interfering with existing DevOps processes. Kubevious helps Kubernetes operators to quickly identify configuration specifics, inconsistencies, compliance, and best practices violations. Kubevious application-centric UI is unique. By correlating configurations, it allows operators to be efficient and get the most out of Kubernetes. Kubevious validates and enforces cloud-native best practices. Achieve ultimate safety across all domains: application configuration, state, RBAC, storage, networking, service mesh, and more. Kubernetes operators love the user friendly and intuitive interface provided by Kubevious. Kubevious is equipped with rules engine which was purposely build to enforce application and cloud native best practices in Kubernetes.

Red Kubes is a Dutch start-up founded in 2019 by Sander Rodenhuis and Maurice Faber. After building and operating Kubernetes clusters for years, we noticed organizations are having difficulty keeping up with the increasing complexity of Kubernetes. To make Kubernetes easy and fun, we developed our first product called Otomi Container Platform, a value-added layer on top of Kubernetes to shorten time to market and speed up agility and innovation. One web UI to access all integrated applications and self-service features. A complete and out-of-the-box platform experience for Kubernetes. A suite of integrated applications for Kubernetes combined with automation. An overview of all supported Cloud/Infrastructure providers. Self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service for Kubernetes. Stop reinventing the wheel and get a full platform experience out-of-the-box.