How Palette compares
There are many Kubernetes management platforms out there. But only Palette was built for production-ready scale.
If you’re looking for a Kubernetes management platform, you’ve come to the right place.
“We compared Palette to other solutions like Rancher and nothing came close. It’s one thing building a cluster, but quite another managing multiple production clusters on an ongoing basis. That’s where Palette excels.”
No dependency on management servers
Conventional approaches based on management servers bog down when you get to tens or hundreds of clusters. What happens when you get to thousands?
Proven to manage 10,000+ clusters with no performance degradation or management overhead.
Requires individual management server configuration dependent on the number of clusters.
Requires individual management cluster configuration for each platform.
Unified multi-cluster, multi-environment management
Are there restrictions about where you can deploy? Do you need to manage each environment or each region separately?
Cluster Profiles support public cloud, cloud managed K8s services, bare metal and virtualized DCs and edge clusters, managed as one.
Manual self-hosting option only for cloud.
No bare metal support.
Full-stack approach
Kubernetes is only 20% of a functioning cluster. How do you manage the other 80%, including the OS?
Manage Kubernetes, infrastructure and app integrations consistently and declaratively — including bare metal and edge OS.
No management for add-on layers/integrations, such as service mesh, security, login, authentication, etc.
No management for add-on layers/ integrations, such as service mesh, security, logging, authentication, etc.
Self-healing always-on declarative management
Declarative is the future — but what happens after your profiles are built?
Repeatable Cluster Profiles, reconciliation checks and self-healing every hour or on-demand across the full stack.
Repeatable Cluster Profiles, reconciliation checks and self-healing every hour or on-demand across the full stack.
Self-healing only for infrastructure layers.
Effortless bare metal and edge
The cost and risk with “Bring-your-own-OS” is just too high. And wouldn’t it be nice if your hundreds of edge locations were managed exactly like in the cloud?
Our full-stack approach takes away the pain of managing servers and operating systems and our edge approach is almost “plug-n-play”, simple as scanning a QR code on your server. Literally.
OS needs to be managed separately for bare metal and edge environments.
No bare metal support, edge is based on infra-heavy virtualized approach.
Comprehensive choice of integrations
What makes up the 80%? Is your tool opinionated, forcing you to use specific stack elements?
Choose from over 50 out-of-the-box integrations, all pre-validated for interoperability, including a range of leading K8s distributions and OSs — all declaratively managed as part of Cluster Profiles.
Open source approach but no management awareness of add-on layers/integrations, such as service mesh, security, logging, authentication, etc. No validation.
Limited choice of integrations.
Extending value to existing clusters with advanced Day 2 ops and zero-downtime migration option
Because you might not be starting from scratch and if you choose to, you will want to migrate at your own pace.
Deploy add-on layers on top of existing clusters, perform advanced Day 2 ops like cost optimization or deploy Palette Virtual Clusters and when you are ready to convert your clusters, do it with a few clicks with no risk of downtime.
Manual backup/restore process to migrate clusters. Day 2 operations tools require manual install.
Manual backup/restore process to migrate clusters. Only basic Day 2 operations.
Day 2 lifecycle management
Change happens. How does your platform help you manage it?
Upgrades, backup/restore, patching, usage quotas, cost controls and compliance tests, all natively integrated with zero manual work required.
Day 2 tools require manual install.
Limited Day 2 tools (some require additional licensing).
Complete security and governance
It starts with access controls, but security is so much more.
Real zero-trust architecture, granular RBAC, immutable distro, hardened clusters, native security scans.
"All-or-nothing” RBAC option, no concept of zero-trust security.
Basic security approach and tools.
24/7 enterprise-grade support
When you’re using K8s in production, support matters. Who picks up the phone?
24/7 with solution support covering your full stack, from the distro, to the OS, to any integration you use.
24/7 with solution support covering your full stack, from the distro, to the OS, to any integration you use.
24/7 with solution support covering your full stack, from the distro, to the OS, to any integration you use.
See why GigaOm rated us a leader in Kubernetes management — twice!
Analysts at GigaOm rated us ‘leader’ and ‘outperformer’ on the 2024 Radar Reports for both Kubernetes for Edge Computing, and Managed Kubernetes.
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