Managed Kubernetes. On Your Infrastructure.
K8S Engine delivers a fully managed Kubernetes control plane (including etcd, upgrades, backups, and reliability engineering) while you attach your own nodes from bare metal, private datacenters, edge sites, and cloud providers.
The problem
Platform teams want Kubernetes everywhere—but operating control planes everywhere is expensive, risky, and inconsistent:
etcd reliability and upgrades aren't 'set and forget'
Control plane security is easy to get wrong
Hybrid environments amplify drift and operational overhead
The solution
K8S Engine decouples Kubernetes from infrastructure.
You get a cloud-grade experience without being forced into one cloud.
Clear Operational Ownership
K8S Engine runs the control plane. You own the nodes and workloads.
K8S Engine manages
- Kubernetes control plane (API server, scheduler, controller manager)
- etcd: HA, backups, maintenance routines
- Lifecycle: version upgrades and compatibility guardrails
- Autoscaling control for Node Pools
- CSI storage setup out of the box (driver + default StorageClass)
- Security, auditing, and access integration
You manage
- Worker nodes (bare metal or VMs)
- Network & routing to match your environment constraints
- Workload configs, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows
Key outcomes
Less operational load
Fewer specialist runbooks, less firefighting
Consistent platform
Same behavior across environments
Freedom of placement
Run workloads where data, latency, or cost demands it
Production confidence
Upgrades, backups, and control plane SRE built in
Everything you need to run Kubernetes
Enterprise-grade capabilities without the operational overhead.
Managed control plane + etcd
HA etcd with automatic backups and maintenance routines. No etcd operations required.
Node Pools
Define provider, sizing, labels, and taints per pool. Scale independently.
Autoscaling across providers
Unified scaling logic across AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, and IONOS.
CSI storage out of the box
CSI driver installed automatically with a default StorageClass. PVCs work immediately.
RBAC + SSO + audit logs
Enterprise access controls with OIDC integration and immutable audit trails.
Upgrade channels + maintenance windows
Controlled Kubernetes upgrades with compatibility guardrails.
Add-ons marketplace
Pre-configured ingress, metrics, logging, and policy add-ons.
Multi-cluster management
Operate multiple clusters from a single console with consistent policies.