Clever Kubernetes Engine – CKE

All the power of Kubernetes (K8S), with the Clever Cloud experience.
A new way to deploy and manage your K8S clusters: high-performance, integrated, and operated in Europe.

Discover our approach, currently in private access.
CKE

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

  1. 01

    01 Fully managed control plane and nodes

    Provisioning, updates, and maintenance automated.

  2. 02

    02 Dedicated and scalable architecture

    Strong isolation, adaptable to your needs (Essential, Business, Enterprise).

  3. 03

    03 Ready-to-use infrastructure

    Built-in networking and monitoring, no manual configuration required.

  4. 04

    04 Native interoperability

    Compatible with standard K8S tools (kubectl, Helm, GitOps, Terraform…).

  5. 05

    05 Integrated Clever Cloud ecosystem

    Managed databases, S3 storage, IAM, observability, and unified CI/CD.

  6. 06

    06 Enhanced stability and performance:

    Etcd reimplemented on Materia KV for real horizontal scalability and fine-grained observability.

  7. 07

    07 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.

CKE

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