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.
Kubernetes - Dedicated control plane
High-performance container management
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.
Scale heavy workloads
As your business grows as your needs, a dedicated control plane is the solution to get the best performance to handle container workloads. The highly available memory of the Instance is dedicated to handling the increasing number of containers that are turning on and down.
Ensure the resilience of production environments
As an application runs on containers and is orchestrated by Kubernetes, a production environment needs to be highly stable and perform well at any time for business continuity. On the other hand, staging and development environments do not require the same level of performance.
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
Frequently asked questions
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.