Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK) Alternatives (September 2025)

D2iQ makes it easier to build and run Kubernetes at scale, reducing time to market from months to days.

Easily manage multiple Kubernetes clusters with the automation power of the Kubermatic platform. Scale your business with reliability.

Rancher, the open-source multi-cluster orchestration platform, lets operations teams deploy, manage and secure enterprise Kubernetes. Request a demo!

CAST AI cuts your cloud bill in half, automates DevOps tasks, and prevents downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform.

Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. Use Sedai to optimize compute, storage and data including Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, AWS ECS, AWS EC2, Azure VMs, AWS S3, AWS EBS, Google Dataflow and more. Sedai's Autonomous Cloud Management Platform works across AWS, Azure, GCP and On-Premises and can run in three modes: Datapilot, Copilot and Autopilot.

Explore Harvester, SUSE's hyperconverged infrastructure solution, to streamline your virtual machine and Kubernetes workloads. Discover cost-effective HCI systems for a modern cloud-native environment.

Simplify your Kubernetes deployment with Kublr. Our platform offers fast and efficient setup and orchestration for small and large scale enterprises.

An open source Kubernetes Platform to manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge. Get started for free!

Sardina Systems provides full life-cycle automated clouds on OpenStack and Kubernetes. Experience zero-downtime private cloud management operations with FishOS.

Canonical Kubernetes enterprise solutions build up from Ubuntu OS to hybrid multi-cloud container orchestration clouds, edge and IoT, managed Kubernetes and enterprise support packages.

A single console, with built-in security policies, for controlling Kubernetes clusters and applications.

Portainer is your container management software to deploy, troubleshoot, and secure applications across cloud, datacenter, and Industrial IoT use cases.

Devtron enables swift app containerization, seamless Kubernetes deployment, and peak performance optimization – simplify your app management today!

Applications that don’t work well in public cloud don’t have to be excluded from cloud benefits. They can be moved to a managed, hosted private cloud.

Scale Computing's highly-automated edge infrastructure, virtualization platform, & hyperconverged solutions can handle all of your IT infrastructure needs.

Every engineering decision is a buying decision. Build cost-efficient software in the cloud without slowing down innovation.

Taikun CloudWorks is an Advanced Platform for Delivering Kubernetes & Applications Seamlessly Across Multi Cloud Environments

Portworx is persistent storage for containers and databases. Operate data services for containers including persistent storage, HA, snapshots, backup, encryption and disaster recovery. Try today!

See how Densify optimizes your cloud and container resources and ensures app and workload performance is optimal.

Low-touch virtual infrastructure with LXD at any scale. Built on top of Linux containers, LXD offers a unified user experience in managing system containers, virtual machines and clusters. Easily configurable, flexible and secure way to run your workloads.

nOps is an automated FinOps platform helping customers reduce their AWS costs by up to 50% on auto-pilot.

Pepperdata saves you 30% or more on cloud costs by autonomously optimizing applications on Amazon EMR and Amazon EKS with no code changes.

Market-leading data protection service built for Kubernetes, simplifying compliance and data access, and empowering app owners to backup and restore apps.

Kion streamlines cloud operations by automating identity, compliance, and financial management across your multi cloud (AWS, Azure, & Google Cloud).

Unified storage solutions from NetApp deliver reliable data storage strategies that brings file and block storage into a single, scalable data management platform. Truly unified for any data type, workload, or application.

Create a multicloud strategy across any cloud for your workloads, applications, and data using Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) services.

Run any app on any cloud on any device with a digital foundation built on VMware solutions for modern apps, multi-cloud, digital workspace, security & networking.

Zesty’s cloud infrastructure optimization platform allows you to slash cloud costs & reduce manual efforts while maintaining perfect performance. Book a demo today.

Platform teams need control. Dev teams need autonomy. Uffizzi provides a multi-tenant, Kubernetes-native foundation that accomplishes both.

Empower your operations with Motadata: Unified Observability & IT Service Management. Gain insights, streamline tasks, & optimize performance

Azure Virtual Desktop Management and Windows 365 solutions for Managed Service Providers & Enterprise IT professionals (Nerdio Manager).

CoreStack NextGen cloud governance enables enterprises to optimize cloud spend, mitigate risks, assure compliance, automate operations and boost revenues.

Kong Mesh is an enterprise-ready service mesh that provides security, reliability and observability for Kubernetes environments. Accelerate deployments today!

MicroK8s is the simplest production-grade conformant K8s. Lightweight and focused. Single command install on Linux, Windows and macOS. Made for devOps, great for edge, appliances and IoT. Full high availability Kubernetes with autonomous clusters and distributed storage.

Ambassador Labs - We build best-in-class Kubernetes-native productivity tools to safely design, develop, test, deploy, & monitor apps with speed & efficiency

Platform teams use Rafay’s PaaS to help developers and data scientists deploy CPU-based and GPU-based workloads in data centers, public clouds, or at the edge.

An ocean of simple, scalable cloud solutions.

VMware Tanzu is a cloud native application platform that enables vital DevSecOps outcomes in a multi-cloud world.

Powerful model serving and orchestration for your AI & ML projects, without the hassle of managing Kubernetes & cloud infrastructure.

Browse our developer-first, open source application delivery & hosting platform. Discover unmatched flexibility, up to 99.99% uptime, & exceptional support

ZEDEDA delivers an open, distributed, cloud-native edge management and orchestration solution.

Our Enterprise VDI platform delivers virtual desktops and apps across multiple clouds and on-prem data centers with industry-leading reliability.

Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) provides enterprise-level high-performance and flexible management of Kubernetes containerized applications throughout the application lifecycle.

Managed Enterprise Container Management for Organizations. We have private and managed container orchestration for Kubernetes, Docker, and more!

Qovery is a DevOps Automation Platform that eliminates your DevOps hiring needs. Provision and maintain a secure and compliant infrastructure in hours - not months!

Our platform as a service (PaaS) gives development teams control and peace of mind while accelerating the time to build and deploy applications.

Simplify and extend your VMware environment with Dell VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure appliances. Streamline your IT operations and lower costs.

IT infrastructure management platforms: management of physical equipment and virtual infrastructure, automation of accounting and issuance of IT resources

Alibaba Cloud offers integrated suite of cloud products and services to businesses in America, to help to digitalize by providing scalable, secure and reliable cloud computing solutions. Try for Free.

LINBIT brings technology and support for high availability, disaster recovery and kubernetes persistent storage solutions for the Enterprise

Vultr Global Cloud Hosting - Brilliantly Fast SSD VPS Cloud Servers. 100% KVM Virtualization

Learn how customers run Kubernetes on Amazon EKS with detailed case studies and videos.

Kasm Workspaces delivers zero-trust remote browser isolation (RBI), desktop as a service (DaaS) and open-source intelligence (OSINT) workloads to the web browser.

Elevate and fortify your cloud strategy to achieve significant savings with CloudOptimo's cost optimization and security solutions for AWS and Azure.

Infoblox NIOS 9.0.1 delivers advanced encrypted security and privacy for enterprises (DoT/DoH), expands multi-cloud automation and templated API integrations, and strengthens cost-effective DDI reliability for hybrid networks of any size—today and into the future.

CloudEndure, an AWS Company, provides disaster recovery and cloud migration to AWS from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure.

Build, train, deploy and scale AI models and intelligent applications on a resilient and sustainable cloud ecosystem.

ProsperOps' automatic cloud cost optimization software gives you maximum savings and minimum commitment risk and reduces your wasted cloud spend—24x7.

Discover cloud computing and infrastructure services that brings significant price-performance and control improvements compared to on-premise.

Reliably lighten the Kubernetes Troubleshooting and Monitoring Workload for your DevOps and Developers.

Elevate testing efficiency with Parasoft Virtualize. Advanced service virtualization tools for robust simulation and seamless integration.

Production-Grade Container Orchestration

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) provides a fully managed container service solution that’s easy to use, scalable, secure, and reliable.

Store, manage, and simplify all your unstructured data and hybrid workflows in one platform, anywhere - at the edge, in the core, or in any cloud.

Aiven simplifies cloud data infrastructure management by deploying open-source technologies across multiple clouds, enabling fast and confident creation of next-generation applications.

CloudKeeper is a cloud cost optimization partner offering guaranteed cloud savings, end-to-end cloud services, and unlimited cloud support.

Aiven simplifies cloud data infrastructure management by deploying open-source technologies across multiple clouds, enabling fast and confident creation of next-generation applications.

Kubernetes message broker and message queue platform. An open-source project providing the most efficient way to connect microservices.

OneOps is a cloud management platform that enables organizations to manage applications and infrastructure at scale.

Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka makes it easier to create, discover and connect to real-time data streams regardless of where they exist.

Get a complete overview of your IT infrastructure and manage your data in one central solution.

Leading AI, ML, and computer vision platforms for enterprises with a mission to democratize data.

Vertica provides a best-in-class, unified analytics platform that will forever be independent from underlying infrastructure.

Spacelift helps orchestrate your entire infrastructure pipeline (Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible and more) to deliver secure, cost-effective, and high-performance infrastructure.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

NCM is a holistic multicloud management platform, that makes it easier for enterprises to build, use, operate, and govern their applications and IT infrastructure.

NOTE: In mid-2019 we re-launched and intensified our efforts, deprecating and archiving the old code base of the AWS Service Operator and changing to a community-driven approach. We’re currently in the design phase and invite you to comment on the design issues and become a contributor to the new project, see details at the new GitHub […]

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Sell high growth, high margin IaaS, PaaS and XaaS. Build, manage & scale your successful cloud services business. Get started today.

NueMD by AdvancedMD - Simplifying healthcare practice management. Experience seamless workflows and boost productivity. Learn more!

Build ClickHouse-based analytics applications that detect, analyze, and leverage real-time insights for any use case in any environment.

Software operations are easier with Juju - the open source orchestration engine for software operators. Deploy, integrate, scale and manage your applications' lifecycle at any scale, on any infrastructure with Juju and charms.

Train and deploy ML models and LLMs on top of Kubernetes at the speed of Big Tech with 100% reliability and scalability. Slash production costs by 30-40% and release models to production faster. Training jobs, inference services, GPUs and more on your own infra.

Access your data whenever and wherever you want. Respond faster to business requests. Get set for tomorrow’s technology challenges.

Simple hyperconverged storage that eliminates downtime. We help organizations store, protect, and use their data at and from the edge.

Splunk Enterprise enables you to search, analyze and visualize your data to quickly act on insights from across your technology landscape. Try free today.

xMatters service reliability platform helps DevOps, SREs, and Ops teams automate workflows, ensure infrastructure availability, and deliver products at scale.

A secure cloud management platform for automation, orchestration, cost and usage monitoring of public and private clouds, hypervisors and container hosts. Provides multi-cloud RBAC. Enables self service provisioning. Cost analytics and cloud spending optimization

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

Morpheus Data is a next-generation hybrid cloud management and application infrastructure automation engine.

Utho is the best cloud server provider for developers. ✓Seamless Integration ✓scalable ✓reliable ✓secure ✓high-performance ✓cost-effective.

Atatus is a full-stack observability tool that let you identify the performance bottlenecks and helps you optimize your application at the right time. Try it for free!!

Simplify and accelerate your IT with HPE SimpliVity Hyperconverged, an intelligent, hyper-efficient HCI solution for edge, VDI, and general virtualization workloads.

Economize is a cloud cost optimization software that helps you analyze, manage and optimize your AWS and Google Cloud cloud costs.

Invent with purpose, realize cost savings, and make your organization more efficient with Microsoft Azure’s open and flexible cloud computing platform.

Fully-managed enterprise edge cloud services - compute, networking, storage and more - designed for service providers and the modern enterprise.

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends more efficient AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.

Improve TCO up to 10X, and boost your digitization pace up to 100x and increase operational efficiency up to 3X with data abstraction. Leverage Abstracta to unify, restify, fortify and democratize any data.

FlexPod is a secure, smart, sustainable, hybrid platform engineered to transform infrastructure and operations. FlexPod unites innovative compute, storage, networking, and management to help customers accelerate the delivery of modern workloads and future-proof their environments.