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Virtual clusters running inside regular namespaces solve the Kubernetes multi-tenancy issue and cut costs at the same time. Our vClusters start at CHF 29.– per month (in combination with an NKE node). A complete price list with additional options can be found in the Price Calculator and for more technical details, please check our Documentation.

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More Powerful, Better Isolated and Cheaper

Virtual clusters have their own API server, which makes them much more powerful and better isolated than namespaces. They are also much cheaper than separately created, ‘real’ Kubernetes clusters. Container technology as a service: your managed Kubernetes cluster includes a fully managed software stack, giving you everything you need to run your applications in production.

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Advantages at a Glance

Isolation

Much better isolated than namespaces

Low costs

Cheaper than separate, ‘real’ Kubernetes clusters

Performance

More powerful thanks to its own API server

Safe Multi-Tenancy

vCluster offer a unique developer experience for anyone developing against Kubernetes as a deployment target

Scalability

When scalability limits of k8s are reached due to large multi-tenant clusters, clusters can be split into vClusters and effectively shared

Simulations

New ingress controller tests can be virtually simulated without affecting cluster operation

Value for money

Starting at CHF 29.– per month and in combination with an NKE node, your vCluster is more powerful and better isolated than namespaces and cheaper than ‘real’ Kubernetes clusters

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About the Product

Virtual clusters are executed within the namespaces of other clusters. They have a separate API server and a separate data store so that every Kubernetes object created in the vCluster only exists within this vCluster.

More about vCluster
CI/CD
Due to the fast creation and deletion times of vClusters, as well as their low costs, they are suitable for use in CI/CD pipelines for testing end-to-end deployments for your applications.
Testing New Kubernetes API Versions
We always try to deploy the latest Kubernetes versions within vCluster so you can test your applications against new API versions early.
Well-Isolated and Cost-Effective Environments
Staging and development environments can use their own vClusters to be better isolated from production, instead of using multiple namespaces on a single NKE cluster.
Testing New CRD Versions and Operators
New CRDs and/or operators can easily be tested on a temporary vCluster. You want to upgrade cert-manager and find out if your certificates are still signed? A vCluster can help you with this.
Case Studies

Use Cases for vClusters

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.

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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

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