Managed Kubernetes in Europe
A fully managed, highly available Kubernetes service on enum's own infrastructure in Frankfurt, Germany. Upstream Kubernetes, predictable pricing, full European data sovereignty.
Managed Kubernetes is a service in which the provider runs and maintains the Kubernetes control plane, upgrades, and high availability, so teams deploy workloads without operating the cluster themselves. enum's managed Kubernetes, the enum Kubernetes Engine, runs an isolated, highly available control plane per customer in Frankfurt, Germany, with a 99.9% SLA, upstream Kubernetes, and no US cloud dependencies.
Why choose managed Kubernetes
Run production workloads without carrying the operational burden of the control plane.
No control plane to operate
The provider runs, patches, and upgrades the Kubernetes control plane with high availability, so your team focuses on workloads instead of cluster maintenance.
Production-ready in minutes
Provision a conformant cluster through a CLI or API, instead of assembling and hardening one yourself over weeks.
Built-in high availability
A managed control plane runs across multiple nodes with automatic failover, removing a common single point of failure.
Predictable cost and support
Managed Kubernetes bundles the control plane, updates, and support into a clear price, instead of a long list of separately billed components.
What is managed Kubernetes?
Managed Kubernetes, also called Kubernetes as a Service, is a cloud service that operates the Kubernetes control plane for you. You deploy applications with standard Kubernetes manifests and tooling, and the provider keeps the control plane available, patched, and upgraded. You stay in control of your workloads and namespaces, without running etcd, the API server, or the scheduler yourself.
- ✓Highly available control plane, operated by the provider
- ✓Kubernetes version upgrades handled for you
- ✓Security patching of the control plane
- ✓Core networking and storage integration included
Managed vs self-managed Kubernetes
Self-managed Kubernetes, for example kubeadm or a do-it-yourself setup on virtual machines, gives full control but makes your team responsible for the control plane, upgrades, etcd backups, and high availability. Managed Kubernetes moves that operational burden to the provider while keeping your workloads portable, because the cluster runs upstream Kubernetes.
- ✓Self-managed: you operate the control plane, etcd, and upgrades
- ✓Managed: the provider operates the control plane under an SLA
- ✓Both run standard Kubernetes, so manifests and Helm charts port over
- ✓enum runs upstream Kubernetes with no proprietary fork
Choosing a managed Kubernetes provider in Europe
For teams in regulated or sovereignty-sensitive markets, where the cluster runs and who operates it matters as much as the feature list. A European managed Kubernetes provider keeps data and operations in the EU and avoids US CLOUD Act exposure.
- ✓Data residency and operations in the EU
- ✓Upstream Kubernetes, no proprietary fork
- ✓A clear availability SLA for the control plane
- ✓Transparent pricing without per-request surprises
- ✓Support from the engineers who operate the platform
Managed Kubernetes with enum
enum Kubernetes Engine is enum's managed Kubernetes service: an isolated, highly available control plane per customer in Frankfurt, with upstream Kubernetes, eBPF networking, and NVMe-backed storage, backed by a 99.9% SLA.
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