Question 1

What is Spectro Cloud Palette?

Accepted Answer

Palette is a unified platform for managing the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters at scale — across data centers, clouds, and edge environments — supporting both container and VM workloads.

Question 2

How does Palette help manage thousands of clusters?

Accepted Answer

Palette uses a patented decentralized architecture that enforces policies locally on each cluster, enabling fault tolerance, resilience, and true scalability without bottlenecks or additional infrastructure.

Question 3

Does Palette support Kubernetes at the edge?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Palette offers a production-grade edge solution with features like 2-node HA, zero-downtime OTA updates, ruggedized security, and support for disconnected or air-gapped deployments.

Question 4

Can Palette manage virtual machines as well as containers?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Through Virtual Machine Orchestrator (VMO), Palette allows organizations to deploy and manage both VMs and containers in a single platform — even on bare metal.

Question 5

Is Palette an open platform?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Palette supports 50+ open source components and lets teams choose their own Kubernetes distro, OS, observability tools, and more — all validated and pre-integrated into reusable Cluster Profiles.

Question 6

Who uses Spectro Cloud Palette?

Accepted Answer

Palette is trusted by organizations like GE HealthCare, Nokia, T-Mobile, Iron Mountain, and teams across the US military. It has been recognized by Gartner, GigaOm, and the CNCF community.

Why Palette for Kubernetes at scale