What Is PMK
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is a SaaS managed Kubernetes offering that makes it effortless run Kubernetes on any infrastructure — private, public and edge clouds.
For an introduction to Kubernetes, we recommend reading What is Kubernetes? And what can it do for you?
Who is this documentation for?
The PMK documentation is for administrators and operators of PMK who are responsible for creating and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for their organization. This is not intended to be general purpose Kubernetes documentation.
Please refer to the official Kubernetes documentation for more detailed information on Kubernetes.
Benefits of PMK
PMK is deployed using a unique and powerful Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, where our cloud hosted management plane remotely deploys, manages, monitors and upgrades your Kubernetes clusters, built anywhere:
- on-premises on your data centers,
- on VMware environment, or on-premises VMs created on other private cloud platforms
- using public cloud as IaaS layer with PMK's Kubernetes distribution
- at an edge location such as retail stores, radio cell towers for telecommunication providers, etc
This enables us to provide a hassle-free Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform with a guaranteed 24x7x365 SLA for your hybrid Kubernetes environment.
Central Management Plane Aggregates Multiple Clusters
Platform9 Managed Kubernetes Overview Dashboard
PMK is designed to give you shared visibility and control of all of your Kubernetes clusters via the SaaS Management Plane and the associated REST APIs. By enabling concepts such as multi-region support, and multi-tenancy, PMK enables you to scale your hybrid Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple geographical regions, data centers, cloud environments. Your teams across the globe can collaborate using PMK as the central platform.
Always On Assurance
Platform9 Always On Assurance uniquely offers a commitment towards highest uptime SLA for all your Kubernetes environments managed by PMK. Our technology monitors all your Kubernetes clusters 24/7. Once connected to the PMK management plane, it identifies issues, and proactively notifies either our team of Kubernetes experts, or your Platform Ops teams.
With this unique model, production issues and outages with your Kubernetes environment are caught early, and are either auto-resolved, or our customer success team collaborates with your team to resolve them within the shortest time.
Developer Self Service
PMK offers one of the best and most comprehensive self-service portal lets your organization standardize on a single self-service interface for your Developers, DevOps, Platform Ops and IT teams.
IT and Ops teams get to retain control by defining multi-tenancy, adding granular RBAC policies and visibility and security rules across your different Kubernetes clusters.
Developers get full IDE access to deploy new test clusters, or access existing clusters, and debug and triage any issues within their Kubernetes environments.
Next Steps
- Learn about Platform9 Architecture and Technical Overview
- Try the Get Started With PMK Step-By-Step Tutorials on Platform9 Learn