NKP is designed to run anywhere that meets your business needs. It seamlessly integrates with NCI, but can be deployed on bare-metal, natively on public clouds, and even on third-party virtualization platforms without any need for NCI.
Nutanix Kubernetes® Platform
Built to Solve the Toughest Kubernetes Management Challenges
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) simplifies platform engineering by reducing operational complexity and establishing consistency across any environment.
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Kubernetes done right
Instant Platform Engineering
All the components needed for production-ready Kubernetes in a fully integrated turnkey solution.
Flexible deployment options
Deploy in the public cloud, on-premises or at the edge with or without Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure.
Openness
Composed of upstream CNCF projects that are fully integrated and validated, but easily replaced so you’re not locked-in.
Consolidate and master your cloud native operations
Deploy, secure, manage and upgrade:
Enterprise-ready cloud native stack at scale
Complete platform
Service Mesh and Networking
Simplify complex microservices management while enhancing observability and security.
Comprehensive Observability
Infrastructure and application monitoring with advanced logging and real-time visualization.
Policy, Governance, and Security
Prevent configuration drift by enforcing consistent policies across all environments.
Fleet management
Cluster API and GitOps
Avoid cluster sprawl through centralized hybrid multicloud fleet management, intuitively integrated with developer workflows with GitOps.
EKS and AKS Management
Add comprehensive multi-cluster management capabilities to your public cloud Kubernetes deployments without needing to migrate to a different runtime.
AI Navigator, Insights, and consistency
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
Integrated and comprehensive data services
Files, Objects, and Block Storage
Manage your valuable application data with comprehensive and mature data services that scale out seamlessly with your deployment, regardless of protocol or data format.
Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes
Extend enterprise data services to cloud native applications and give Kubernetes administrators control over data services such as disaster recovery and business continuity.
Nutanix Database Service
Simplify database management at scale with self-service database provisioning and management, automated best practices, and accelerated performance.
Other capabilities
Get hands-on with NKP and fast-track your Cloud-Native Journey
Build an enterprise-ready Cloud Native stack at scale that keeps pace with developers’ needs.
- Deploy high-availability Kubernetes clusters at scale in minutes with persistent storage included.
- Greatly reduce effort operating Kubernetes on production by building observability, security, AI Assistant, and more.
- Easily deploy, secure, manage, and upgrade Kubernetes clusters and apps at scale anywhere with Fleet Management and GitOps.
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FAQ
Yes, NKP leverages the Kubernetes Cluster API for all automation and lifecycle management. This means that you can write your automations once and it’ll work on any CNCF compliant Kubernetes distribution. NKP does not add a ‘wrapper’ api like some enterprise Kubernetes products - it consumes and produces fully open source APIs.
NKP is designed to manage third party Kubernetes distributions, including EKS, AKS, as well as CNCF compliant Kubernetes deployments. So you can keep your production workloads running while consolidating management under NKP.
NKP Starter is included with the Pro and Ultimate tiers of NCI, so if you are a Nutanix customer with either of these licenses you can start using it today. If you are not yet a Nutanix customer, give NKP a test drive or contact a sales team for a live demo.
NCI is the core hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software stack from Nutanix. It combines compute, storage, and networking into a single platform with built-in virtualization, and disaster recovery. NKP is Nutanix’s Kubernetes management solution, enabling users to deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters across on-prem and cloud environments. Both are components of NCP, which is a unified platform for hybrid multicloud operations.
Yes, NKP seamlessly integrates with storage solutions through CSI drivers. When combined with NCI, it offers a unified platform for managing both containers and virtual machines (VMs), complete with robust enterprise-grade data services. Additionally, NKP integrates with other Nutanix products, including Nutanix Database Service (NDB) for Database-as-a-Service and Nutanix Unified Storage (NUS) for object storage, making it an ideal solution for containerized workloads.
- Starter: Basic Kubernetes on Nutanix AHV.
- Pro: Adds observability, backup/restore, GPU support, and multi-platform deployment.
- Ultimate: Adds fleet management, GitOps, cost management, and multitenancy.
NKP provides a robust, enterprise-grade solution for running Kubernetes on-premises. With NKP, you can automate deployment, simplify lifecycle management, and scale your Kubernetes clusters and workloads with ease - both in your data center and at the edge. This comprehensive platform includes robust data services and optional virtualization, making it an ideal choice for organizations looking to streamline their Kubernetes operations.