Managed Kubernetes
SUE manages Kubernetes clusters for mission-critical applications: upgrades, patching, monitoring, security, and incident response. We do this on Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, Google GKE, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher (RKE2), Talos Linux, and Multistax—in the public cloud, on-premises, or with a European cloud provider. This frees up your engineers’ time to focus on the application itself.
- More than 60 engineers with CKA or CKS certification
- Partner of Red Hat and SUSE
- ISO 27001-certified
- Available 24/7
The benefits of Managed Kubernetes at SUE
At SUE, we manage Kubernetes because we believe your engineers should spend their time building products, not maintaining platforms. Kubernetes can accelerate innovation, but it requires in-depth expertise to keep clusters secure, resilient, compliant, and cost-effective at scale.
Our experts design a secure and resilient foundation, manage the control plane, automate capacity, and continuously monitor performance to keep your environment highly available and GDPR-compliant. This allows your team to stay focused on delivering business value quickly.
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Optimized performance and uptime
With automatic scaling and proactive monitoring, we keep your clusters running smoothly and ensure that critical workloads remain highly available.
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Enhanced Security and Compliance
24/7 monitoring, image scanning, and policy enforcement protect your Kubernetes platform against new threats and ensure compliance with the GDPR and industry standards.
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Cost Control and Higher ROI
By outsourcing Kubernetes operations, you can reduce internal overhead and maximize the value of your cloud investments. To learn how SUE makes Kubernetes costs transparent and reduces them for each team, see the sections on cloud cost optimization and FinOps.
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Direct access to Kubernetes experts
Work with engineers who know Kubernetes inside and out and can quickly resolve complex issues, while providing guidance on best practices.
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Operational Simplicity
We handle day-to-day management, upgrades, and troubleshooting so your teams can focus on innovation that drives the business forward.
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Automatic scaling
Clusters scale up or down based on demand, delivering solid performance without waste.
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Proactive Problem Prevention
Potential issues are detected early and resolved before they impact workloads, ensuring that applications remain stable and resilient.
You can read about the choices you make from the initial cluster setup through to production in the Kubernetes guide. All of SUE’s management services can be found on the page Managed Services. Want to have Kubernetes designed or migrated? You can read about that on the Kubernetes page.
What is included in Managed Kubernetes Services?
Kubernetes is complex, but with the right tools, it can accelerate your development. Our Managed Services are modular in design. Each component can be used independently, but delivers the most value when used in combination. Together, our Kubernetes services cover all critical capabilities.
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Observability
Complete visibility into your Kubernetes environment. We monitor pods, nodes, and services in real time and translate metrics, logs, and traces into actionable insights. Patterns are identified early on, before they become problems. Observability is built in as standard with proven solutions such as Prometheus and Grafana, featuring clear alerts and easy-to-understand dashboards.
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Automation & Incident Response
Kubernetes-native automation keeps your platform consistent, scalable, and secure. With continuous incident response, we resolve issues quickly and keep operations running smoothly. Full API and CLI access ensures that you always remain in control. Using Terraform, we define Infrastructure as Code and achieve consistent, repeatable deployments.
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Capacity Planning & Change Management
We analyze resource usage and growth trends so that clusters grow alongside your business. This supports smooth releases and secure changes. Capacity planning ensures predictable costs and efficient resource allocation without waste or instability.
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Security & Compliance
Security is integrated into every layer of your Kubernetes platform. Image scanning, network policies, role-based access, and GDPR-compliant logging ensure compliance and resilience. With Cilium, based on eBPF, we enforce granular network rules, accelerate traffic, and provide deep insight into application communication. You can get an initial overview of your clusters with the Cloud Security Health Check.
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Business Continuity
Resilient architecture, automated backups, and structured incident workflows keep workloads online and ensure rapid recovery in the event of a disruption. With multi-zone control planes and rolling upgrades, applications remain available even when infrastructure issues arise.
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System Maintenance and Upgrades
We provide patching, version updates, and lifecycle management to keep your Kubernetes environment modern, secure, and free of technical debt. Proactive maintenance prevents Compatibility issues and unplanned downtime.
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Why you want Managed Kubernetes at SUE
With SUE’s Managed Kubernetes, your engineers can focus their time on building and deploying. We handle the cluster management. Security is built in from the start: best-practice configurations, automated patching, and enforced policies. Clusters scale automatically, upgrades are rolled out incrementally, and if a problem arises, you’ll speak directly with an engineer who knows your platform. If your teams also want to create their own environments and pipelines, we’ll build an Internal Developer Platform to support that. See Platform Engineering.
Access, changes, and incident reports are governed by ISO 27001 and are audited externally each year.
Key steps in our onboarding process
Our onboarding process ensures a smooth and transparent transition to Managed Services. We start with a clear scope and clear SLAs, followed by technical onboarding and integration with monitoring. Expectations, escalation paths, and responsibilities are established in advance. After go-live, we continue to optimize.
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Intake: Aligning the scope and service level agreements with all stakeholders.
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Technical onboarding: Integration with monitoring and comprehensive analysis of the IT landscape.
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Defining Roles and Escalation Paths: Clear Role Allocation and Escalation Procedures.
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Go-live and implementation: Deployment of tools and automation; fine-tuning of thresholds.
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Ongoing management and evaluation: Continuous optimization of monitoring, capacity, and policies.
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