Managed Kubernetespowered by OpenStack

Kubernetes without the hassle. Create and manage Kubernetes clusters at the touch of a button. Hosted in stepping stone’s Swiss data centres, with automatic scaling and ongoing updates.

Self-service, full control. Create clusters via the OpenStack dashboard, CLI or Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu). The Cluster API takes care of the rest.

Automatically up to date: stepping stone seamlessly applies updates. We support the last three minor versions of Kubernetes. You’ll always be up to date.

Scales with you: horizontal scaling at the touch of a button. New worker nodes are ready within minutes. The Cluster API handles life-cycle management without the need for manual intervention.

Development teams and DevOps departments that want to run containerised applications in production — without having to set up and maintain clusters themselves. Particularly suitable for organisations with microservice architectures, CI/CD pipelines and applications that need to scale dynamically.

Open source right down to its very foundations. Certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022. Your data is stored with triple redundancy and encrypted in Swiss data centres.

And if you don’t have time for cluster management, stepping stone can manage your Kubernetes environment on request, so that you can focus on your applications.

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Scope of services

Managed service

Provisioned via OpenStack Magnum and Cluster API, and fully operated by our team. From set-up and updates right through to maintenance, we take care of the entire lifecycle of the cluster for you.

Rolling updates

Upgrade Kubernetes versions seamlessly with rolling updates that minimize downtime and keep your workloads available throughout the process.

Autoscaling

Node counts automatically adjust to match current demand within your Managed Kubernetes cluster. This ensures sufficient resources are always available without any manual intervention required.

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cloud Hosting ist eine schnellere, stabilere und zuverlässigere Alternative zum Shared Hosting. Das Managed Cloud Hosting bietet im Vergleich zum herkömmlichen Webhosting eine 4-fach höhere Geschwindigkeit und 20-fach mehr Ressourcen. Außerdem ist es vollständig verwaltet – das heißt, wir kümmern uns um alle technischen Belange, damit Sie sich auf die Erweiterung Ihrer Projekte konzentrieren können. Es ist die perfekte Lösung für Website-Besitzer, die die Leistung und Stabilität eines virtuellen privaten Servers (VPS) suchen, ohne die Komplexität der Verwaltung eines solchen.

The first one mentioned uses decimal (SI) and the second one binary (IEC) unit prefixes. The actual sizes are shown in the table beneath.

DecimalBinary
SI unitMeaningIEC unitMeaning
Kilobyte (KB)1 000 ByteKibibyte (KiB)1 024 Byte
Megabyte1 000 000 ByteMebibyte (MiB)1 048 576 Byte
Gigabyte (GB)1 000 000 000 ByteGibibyte (GiB)1 073 741 824 Byte
Terabyte (TB)1 000 000 000 000 ByteTebibyte (TiB)1 099 511 627 776 Byte
Petabyte (PB)1 000 000 000 000 000 BytePebibyte (PiB)1 125 899 906 842 624 Byte
Exabyte (EB)1 000 000 000 000 000 000 ByteExbibyte (EiB)1 152 921 504 606 846 976 Byte

More information can be found on Wikipedia.