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Managed Kubernetes

Container technology as a service! Hosted entirely on Swiss infrastructure, our managed Kubernetes cluster offers a fully managed software stack – providing everything needed to run your applications in production with our Nine Kubernetes Engine (NKE). For global scalability, choose our managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), available on request. NKE pricing starts at CHF 287.– per month, all charges being based on actual resource and service usage. A complete price list including optional services can be found in the Price Calculator. For more technical details, please check our Documentation.

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Focus on Your Code

We don’t just manage your Kubernetes cluster, we provide a fully maintained open-source software stack – everything you need to run your containers in production. This allows you to focus on developing and deploying your applications while we take care of the underlying infrastructure. With NKE, your data remains securely hosted in Switzerland, while Managed GKE provides the flexibility to scale your operations globally using Google’s datacenters.

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Highlights

Advantages at a glance

Fully managed

Fully managed cluster and software stack backed by an SLA

Highly resilient

99.5%+ uptimes on Nine platforms
99.95%+ uptimes on Google platforms

Safe and secure

Ensured data residency in Switzerland and identity management provided by Nine

Intelligent scaling

Scale your application in an event driven way, we provide KEDA as standard for intelligent scaling functionality

Industry standards

The software stack we provide alongside your cluster consists of industry standard tools which we know inside out

No vendor lock-in

The software we provide is fully open source and portable

Additional service options

Access to and integration of additional Google Cloud Platform and Nine managed services

Value for money

Starting at CHF 287.– per month, we’ll manage your Kubernetes cluster and provide a fully maintained software stack, so you can focus on your application

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About the Product

Managed Kubernetes is for customers seeking a production-ready container environment without the complexity of managing a cluster or ancillary services. With NKE, your data stays securely in Switzerland, running on our local infrastructure, in our own computing network. If you’re looking for global scalability, we also offer the managed Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), leveraging Google’s worldwide datacenter infrastructure.

More about Managed Kubernetes
Knowing Your Needs
At Nine, we know that having a bulletproof, production-ready Kubernetes environment is not just about managing a cluster. It involves monitoring, logging, backups, continuous deployment and all the other tools and services which you need to be confident that your application is working as intended.
What We Offer
Nine’s unique Kubernetes offering provides you with industry standard software and offers an end-to-end Kubernetes experience, supported by a knowledgeable and accredited team, and backed by an SLA. We offer additional application monitoring via managed Prometheus and Grafana, thus giving you insight into your application performance and allowing you to create alerts. Our alternative to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) – managed by us for your business.
Complete Flexibility
Our managed Kubernetes product gives you the full flexibility of choosing Google Cloud Platform or Nine’s Swiss data centres for your data or databases. Thanks to cloud computing, your cluster can run in any region, and you can use a wide variety of virtual machine types to create workload-specific node pools. We integrate other services into your cluster, enabling you to utilise anything you need for your application.
Performance, Security and Stability
Nine’s software stack is fully isolated from your application, giving you all the compute power you are paying for, while ensuring security and stability for your applications. We fully manage any software that we provide, and keep it up to date with the latest security patches and bug fixes. We monitor the software stack 24×7 to ensure that it works whenever you need it.
Certified Specialists
Our experts all hold Certified Kubernetes Administrator and/or Google Cloud Professional Architect certifications and work every day with the tools we offer you. If you need help, whether with writing a correct configuration or conducting a comprehensive audit of your cluster, we are there for you and help you make the most of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform.
Nine Managed Kubernetes Engine (NKE)
The Nine Kubernetes Engine (NKE) is our fully managed Kubernetes hosted in Nine-operated local datacenters Switzerland. This ensures full data residency within Switzerland and includes integrated identity management for enhanced security. It can be supplemented by additional managed services, allowing you to focus entirely on your application development while we handle the infrastructure and management of your Kubernetes environment. If you do not want to have Google involved, NKE is the ideal choice.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Managed by Nine
This is a platform, based on Google’s Kubernetes Engine and additional services that let you focus on your application development. Running containers in production isn’t easy, it’s not enough just to have a Kubernetes cluster running when you need to ensure reliability and resilience. Covering this complexity on behalf of the Customer is at the heart of Nine’s managed GKE. Nine’s Managed GKE offering helps customers focus on their core business value by allowing them to focus on their applications and not on the services around them.
Case Studies

Use Cases for Managed Kubernetes

mühlemann+popp

We helped mühlemann+popp to smoothly realise the migration from the Google Cloud to the Nine infrastructure for their customer, a leading Swiss company in the healthcare sector – including a switch to Swiss hosting. In addition to providing support for the actual infrastructure, we also supported mühlemann+popp with managed services such as monitoring and logging solutions.

mühlemann+popp

healthinal

We supported healthinal with the implementation of a new monitoring system based on Managed Kubernetes. healthinal was even able to work independently with the documentation at docs.nine.ch, do things on their own according to instructions and otherwise contact our support team. The customer particularly appreciated this support from our experts: they received professional and quick feedback on support requests and the people involved always had the feeling that they were actually making progress after reporting an issue.

healthinal

Pupil AG

Nine operates the reliable and stable infrastructure for PUPIL, an all-in-one solution for digital school management, based on its own Nine Kubernetes Engine (NKE), so that Pupil AG can focus on its core business.

Pupil AG

ayyah

Nine operates the highly available infrastructure for the Ayyah software based on the Nine Kubernetes Engine (NKE) so that Ayyah AG can focus on customer needs and software development.

ayyah

Unifits

Nine was involved in the project with consulting and implementation services and support. According to the customer, all necessary tasks were implemented promptly and competently. The changeover from a classic server architecture to NKE went smoothly and now enables Unifits to operate securely with greatly reduced maintenance costs.

Unifits
Workshop

Nine Kubernetes Academy

94% of companies surveyed in Europe are either already using Kubernetes, or are testing and researching its implementation (CNCF survey). Container technology is no longer niche, but has become the standard. Learn how to use Kubernetes in practice in this one-day workshop. You will work side by side with our experts, and get answers to your individual questions.

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Goals
After completing this course, you should be able to understand the basic container concept, have gained an overview of the surrounding ecosystem and learned the first steps in Kubernetes: from creating a cluster to deploying your applications.
Contents
Docker Theory & Practice:
– Repetition Docker Container and Container Registry
– Production-ready application deployment with Docker

Kubernetes Theory & Practice: I:
– Kubernetes: overview, use cases, ecosystem and community
– Kubernetes ‘plain vanilla’ vs. cloud provider services
– Definition of a cluster, node, namespace, pod, and deployment
– Interacting with a cluster (kubectl basics)
– Container deployment on Kubernetes

Kubernetes Theory & Practice II:
– Volumes, networking, secrets and configmaps
– Introduction to Helm
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Target group:
– Software Engineers, System Engineers and DevOps Engineers who want to get started with Kubernetes

Requirements:
– Basic knowledge of Docker is desired, but will be refreshed at the start of the workshop
– Knowledge of Linux command line
– Laptop with admin rights & sudo

Price
– Costs for the workshop: 800 CHF excl. VAT (600 CHF excl. VAT if you’re already an NKE customer)

Location
– Remote
Instructor
Davor Gajic has been working as a Platform Engineer for Nine since the beginning of 2020 and leads the courses at the Nine Kubernetes Academy. He has taught a considerable number of courses so far and has helped dozens of graduates to take their first steps with Kubernetes. Experienced in front-end and back-end development, he has successfully completed innumerable projects.

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White Paper

Day 2 Operations with Kubernetes: What to consider when getting started with Kubernetes

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10 Point Checklist

Getting started with Kubernetes

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Product Sheet

Accelerate your journey to the cloud with Nine’s managed container platform

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White Paper

Container technology: an overview of how software is developed and implemented in a faster, simpler and more reliable manner through container solutions

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