What is exactly a Kubernetes control plane?

The control plane is the Kubernetes component that makes global decisions about the cluster (for example, scheduling), as well as detecting and responding to cluster events

How can I get a dedicated Kubernetes control plane?

You can easily buy a Dedicated Control Plane through the console, CLI, or Terraform. This can be done by creating a new cluster or by upgrading an existing one. Please note that there is a 30-day commitment period before downgrading to the Mutualized Control Plane again.

What is the difference between the normal Kapsule and dedicated control plane (CP)?

The classic Kapsule offer is free of charge and corresponds to a highly available control plane with up to 4GB of RAM available for cluster operations. The dedicated CP offers two dedicated Instances with 4GB, 8GB or 16GB or RAM each, fully dedicated to the operations happening on a single cluster, allowing users to run massively heavy workloads and handle more Kubernetes operations

Is the dedicated control plane free like Kapsule?

Our dedicated control plane starts at 80€/mth for a 4 Gb Memory size, depending on your need you can buy higher configuration (8GB or 16GB). Price includes the infrastructure used for the control plane, that is redundant and fully dedicated to your cluster.

Does my workload need a dedicated control plane?

If you do not encounter any control plane unavailability while using Kubernetes Kapsule, then there will probably be no need for a dedicated CP. However, in case you have any doubt, we invite you to open Cockpit, our observability tool, and start analyzing the usage and behavior of your control plane to consider the offer that suits you the most.

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Kubernetes - Dedicated control plane

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Create a state-of-the-art environment

Thanks to our dedicated control plane, you have all the guarantee on your instance, which brings more stable performance and no CPU steal.

Improve container orchestration

Dedicating all the power of an Instance to your environment allows your Kubernetes environment to perform two times better than the basic Kapsule offer and support a heavier workload.

Resilience for your cluster management

Ensuring the high availability and redundancy of your container orchestrator is key for business-critical applications.

Dedicated control plane use-cases

Support ML training and data mining

Training artificial intelligence models requires the high availability of orchestration capabilities. You don't want the training to stop because then you have to start all over again. The same requirements apply when dealing with large amounts of data such as data mining.

Pricing for Kubernetes Dedicated Control Plane


Control plane type / Features	Mutualized	Dedicated 4	Dedicated 8	Dedicated 16
Memory	up to 4 GB1	4 GB dedicated RAM	8 GB dedicated RAM	16 GB dedicated RAM
CPU	up to 1vCPU	2vCPU	2vCPU	4vCPU
API server Availability	1 resilient replica	2 replicas for HA	2 replicas for HA	2 replicas for HA
etcd Availability	3 replicas in multi-AZ	3 replicas in multi-AZ	3 replicas in multi-AZ	3 replicas in multi-AZ
SLA	N/A	99.5% uptime	99.5% uptime	99.5% uptime
Audit logs	N/A	Enabled	Enabled	Enabled
Max cluster size	150 nodes	250 nodes	500 nodes	500 nodes
Pricing	Free	€80/month	€131/month	€255/month

Key features

Single-tenant

Operate in an isolated environment that meets your requirements

High Availability

2 replicas available to ensure full High Availability on your Kubernetes environment

Guaranteed dedicated memory

a dedicated and stable memory available all the time for your workload

Adapt to your scale

Choose between 3 sizes to adapt to your needs - Memory 4Gb/ 8Gb/ 16Gb