Clever Kubernetes Engine – CKE
A new way to deploy and manage your K8S clusters: high-performance, integrated, and operated in Europe.
Discover our approach, currently in private access.
A Natural Extension of Clever Cloud
Clever Cloud was designed to simplify application deployment, scaling, and monitoring.
With managed K8S, we extend this approach to more complex environments:
- Multi-service architectures
- Application interconnections
- Hybrid deployments
You benefit from the full power of K8S, without giving up Clever Cloud’s automation, stability, and sovereignty.
In testing phase
The service is currently in private access.
Participants enjoy no-commitment access and can actively contribute to improving the product before its public release.
A New Foundation for Stability and Performance
We rethought the etcd database layer using Materia KV, our in-house technology built on FoundationDB.
The result: a Kubernetes that is more stable, consistent, and performant, fully aligned with our standards of sovereignty and technical mastery.
To learn more about our technical approach and motivation, read the article:
“Why we (finally) built our own managed Kubernetes”
The Clever Cloud Experience, Extended to K8S
Clever Cloud has always promoted a simple, integrated approach to the cloud: deploy, scale, and monitor without managing infrastructure.
With managed K8S, this philosophy extends to architectures beyond traditional PaaS.
You can deploy your clusters without worrying about maintenance, while enjoying full integration with the Clever Cloud ecosystem:
- Easy migration
- Managed databases (Postgres, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Materia KV…)
- S3-compatible object storage
- Integrated IAM and observability
- Familiar tools: CLI, Terraform, GitOps
Same commitment to simplicity, new orchestration possibilities.
What We Offer
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01 Fully managed control plane and nodes
Provisioning, updates, and maintenance automated.
0202 Dedicated and scalable architecture
Strong isolation, adaptable to your needs (Essential, Business, Enterprise).
0303 Ready-to-use infrastructure
Built-in networking and monitoring, no manual configuration required.
0404 Native interoperability
Compatible with standard K8S tools (kubectl, Helm, GitOps, Terraform…).
0505 Integrated Clever Cloud ecosystem
Managed databases, S3 storage, IAM, observability, and unified CI/CD.
0606 Enhanced stability and performance:
Etcd reimplemented on Materia KV for real horizontal scalability and fine-grained observability.
0707 European sovereignty
Hosted and operated in France by Clever Cloud, with no hyperscaler dependency.
Try It Before the Public Launch
During the private access, the service is without commitment, test it now and help us improve it ahead of the official release.
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