About PMK

Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) is a SaaS managed Kubernetes offering that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on any infrastructure — either on your on-premises data centers or in the public 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.

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, on-premises or on several public clouds. This enables us to provide a hassle-free Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform with a guaranteed 24x7x365 SLA for your Kubernetes environment.

Central Control for CaaS Across Edge, Private and Public Cloud

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. With PMK, you can run Kubernetes clusters on your bare metal Linux servers, VMware, on-premises data centers across geographical regions, on any popular public cloud, or at an edge location. PMK 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.