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Hero Products 10 - Managed Kubernetes

Scale Smarter with Managed Kubernetes

Start shipping code faster with CNCF-certified Managed Kubernetes.
GPU support, Zero Data Transfer Fees, complimentary Control Planes, & Autoscaling.

Scale you operations 1000x without having to scale you team!

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30-day free trial and €500 in free credit

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  • Automatic Cluster Upgrades

    No more manual updates and migrations per cluster! Simpler management and maintenance of your clusters thanks to UKS (UpCloud Kubernetes Service).

  • Simple setup, easy management

    We’ve simplified cluster deployment and management, reducing the expertise required to manage your clusters.

  • Complimentary control planes

    You can focus on your applications while we give you control planes at no additional cost. Learn about UpCloud Essentials

Cloud-Native Container Platform

Utilise Cloud Servers, Load Balancers and Block Storage natively through Kubernetes. Reach other Managed Products through Private Networking.

✅ Free Control Plane included
✅ Zero data transfer fees
✅ CNCF Certified

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Powerful Tooling for Managed Kubernetes

Use the tooling you are familiar with to manage your cluster:

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  • Interactive sandbox environment
  • 5th Gen AMD EPYC demo nodes
  • Real-world workload examples
  • Runs instantly in your browser

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Streamlined container orchestration

Key Features

Load Balancing

Managed Kubernetes offers built-in support for exposing TCP and HTTP(S) services through UpCloud Managed Load Balancer.

Private and Protected

Isolate your workloads by using clusters with only private networking. Configure how to safeguard your sensitive data in transit and at rest.

Scalability

Your applications stay online and adapt to traffic surges automatically, thanks to built-in Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler integration.

Powerful Tooling

Embrace Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices with seamless integration for popular tools like Terraform, and leverage Crossplane to manage cloud resources across different cloud providers directly from your Kubernetes cluster.

Flexible Storage Options

Choose the UpCloud block storage tier that best suits your application’s performance and cost requirements.
Use it with your Kubernetes Persistent Volumes through the Container Storage Interface (CSI).

Private Cloud

Run Kubernetes data plane on your Private Cloud hosts for maximum performance and workload isolation.

Pricing

Production Development
Use case Multiple control plane hosts for enhanced high availability and resilience Single control plane host for cost-effectiveness
High availability ✓ X
Recommended capacity Up to 120 nodes Up to 30 nodes
Pricing €60/mo Free
Availability All locations All locations

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Data plane: Charged by the worked node according to the selected configuration.

  • Worker nodes can be deployed using any available Cloud Server plan.
  • General Purpose, High CPU or High Memory, all with the same pricing as a regular Cloud Server

Recommended capacity: Based on average cluster workloads.

  • To ensure optimal performance, please factor in the specific requirements of your workloads, including:
    • Anticipated growth, resource demands (CPU, memory, storage), and any other services running alongside your Kubernetes clusters.

Bringing Kubernetes to Cloud Natives

UpCloud partner program member and software company, Montel Intergalactic, delivers DevOps expertise to clients across all parts of the software lifecycle and creates future-proof cloud infrastructure for clients on UpCloud.

“The trust we have in UpCloud really resonates with our customers, especially the ones that have a dev team in-house. Customers are reassured when they know the UpCloud developer who is working on their project by name.”

Lauri Kainulainen, CTO of Montel

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Montel Intergalactic And Upcloud Partnership Announcement, Focusing On Bringing Kubernetes To Cloud Natives.

CNCF Certified

UpCloud’s Managed Kubernetes service is proudly a part of the CNCF’s conformance program. All K8’s versions we offer are certified Kubernetes distributions.

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Cloud Native plans built for UKS

Power your applications with cloud servers built for Kubernetes & designed for the ever changing demands of modern workloads.

Your project deserves effortless Scaling, modular storage options, transparent pricing & global availability!

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Managed Kubernetes Blogs

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Deploying an Edge-Ready Kubernetes Cluster Using UpCloud Kubernetes Service (UKS) and CLI

Learn how to deploy an edge-ready Kubernetes cluster using UpCloud's Kubernetes Service and CLI for latency-sensitive workloads.

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  • Object Storage

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Deploying an Open-Source Data Platform on UpCloud

Managing data at scale is now baseline. Teams must reliably ingest, store, transform, process, and serve data across many sources and consumers. A modern data […]

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Developer Advocate at UpCloud. Docker Captain, Team Topologies Ambassador, CD Foundation Ambassador.

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October 20, 2025

Deploying Jaeger on UpCloud Managed Kubernetes with OpenTelemetry!

If you’ve already explored our earlier guide, Understanding Distributed Tracing and Why Jaeger Matters, you know how tracing helps connect the dots between microservices, latency, and performance […]

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Extending OpenTelemetry on UpCloud with Thanos for Scalable Metrics Storage

In our earlier guide, What is OpenTelemetry? Understanding the Standard for Cloud-Native Observability, we explained how OpenTelemetry standardizes the collection of metrics, traces, and logs […]

Faheem Iftikhar

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October 19, 2025

How to Deploy OpenTelemetry on UpCloud Managed Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry gives you a unified, open-source framework for collecting metrics, traces, and logs across your cloud-native infrastructure. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to deploy […]

Faheem Iftikhar

  • Automation
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February 20, 2025

Deploy Lightning-Fast GitHub Actions Runners on Managed Kubernetes® with UpCloud: Part 1

GitHub Actions Runners are the backbone of GitHub’s CI/CD workflows, executing jobs defined in your pipelines. While GitHub provides hosted runners, many teams opt for […]

Kumar Harsh

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  • UpCloud services

May 23, 2024

How to connect Grafana on Aiven with Managed Kubernetes® on UpCloud

Grafana and Kubernetes® are the most popular open-source tools for monitoring and managing containerized applications. They are powerful and versatile tools that can help you […]

Janne Ruostemaa

Editor-in-Chief

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July 30, 2023

How to deploy Managed Kubernetes cluster using Terraform

Managed Kubernetes easily automates the deployment, scaling, and management of container workloads but takes a couple of steps to deploy by itself. So, what better […]

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March 30, 2023

How to get started with Managed Kubernetes®

Kubernetes® is an open-source container orchestration system that automates containerised applications’ deployment, scaling and management. Managed Kubernetes offers a fully managed solution which allows you […]

Janne Ruostemaa

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  • Automation
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How to deploy Kubernetes using Kubespray

Kubespray is a composition of Ansible playbooks, inventory, provisioning tools that make quick work of deploying a new Kubernetes cluster.

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