Compare the Top Container Management Software in the UK as of July 2025

What is Container Management Software in the UK?

Container management software platforms help organizations deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications across multiple environments. These platforms streamline the orchestration of containers, allowing businesses to automate the deployment, scaling, and operation of application containers. They typically support Kubernetes, Docker, or other container orchestration technologies to manage clusters of containers. Container management platforms improve efficiency by enabling developers to focus on building applications rather than worrying about the underlying infrastructure. They also provide monitoring, logging, and security features to ensure that applications run smoothly and securely in production. Compare and read user reviews of the best Container Management software in the UK currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Google Cloud Platform
    Google Cloud Platform provides a robust solution for container management with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which allows users to manage, deploy, and scale containerized applications. GKE automates the deployment process and provides built-in scalability for microservices architectures. New customers are offered $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads, giving them the opportunity to experiment with container management tools and explore how GCP can support containerized workloads in production environments. GCP’s container services also integrate with other Google tools like Cloud Build and Cloud Monitoring, allowing businesses to build, deploy, and monitor applications in real-time. Additionally, GKE provides automatic updates and patch management, ensuring that containerized applications remain secure and up-to-date. These capabilities make it easy for businesses to manage containerized workloads at scale with minimal operational overhead.
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    Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.
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    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition
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    Docker

    Docker

    Docker

    Docker takes away repetitive, mundane configuration tasks and is used throughout the development lifecycle for fast, easy and portable application development, desktop and cloud. Docker’s comprehensive end-to-end platform includes UIs, CLIs, APIs and security that are engineered to work together across the entire application delivery lifecycle. Get a head start on your coding by leveraging Docker images to efficiently develop your own unique applications on Windows and Mac. Create your multi-container application using Docker Compose. Integrate with your favorite tools throughout your development pipeline, Docker works with all development tools you use including VS Code, CircleCI and GitHub. Package applications as portable container images to run in any environment consistently from on-premises Kubernetes to AWS ECS, Azure ACI, Google GKE and more. Leverage Docker Trusted Content, including Docker Official Images and images from Docker Verified Publishers.
    Starting Price: $7 per month
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    Red Hat OpenShift
    The Kubernetes platform for big ideas. Empower developers to innovate and ship faster with the leading hybrid cloud, enterprise container platform. Red Hat OpenShift offers automated installation, upgrades, and lifecycle management throughout the container stack—the operating system, Kubernetes and cluster services, and applications—on any cloud. Red Hat OpenShift helps teams build with speed, agility, confidence, and choice. Code in production mode anywhere you choose to build. Get back to doing work that matters. Red Hat OpenShift is focused on security at every level of the container stack and throughout the application lifecycle. It includes long-term, enterprise support from one of the leading Kubernetes contributors and open source software companies. Support the most demanding workloads including AI/ML, Java, data analytics, databases, and more. Automate deployment and life-cycle management with our vast ecosystem of technology partners.
    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    Percona Kubernetes Operator
    The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB automates the creation, alteration, or deletion of members in your Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB environment. It can be used to instantiate a new Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set, or to scale an existing environment. The Operator contains all necessary Kubernetes settings to provide a proper and consistent Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB instance. The Percona Kubernetes Operators are based on best practices for configuration and setup of a Percona XtraDB Cluster or Percona Server for MongoDB replica set. The benefits of the Operator are many but saving time and delivering a consistent and vetted environment is key.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Portainer Business
    Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience
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    Cycle

    Cycle

    Cycle.io

    Cycle offers a refreshing take on container orchestration, enabling teams to spend more time building and less time managing. Deploy applications seamlessly, gain enhanced visibility, and maintain effortless control, all while reducing complexity and technical debt.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Telepresence

    Telepresence

    Ambassador Labs

    Telepresence streamlines your local development process, enabling immediate feedback. You can launch your local environment on your laptop, equipped with your preferred tools, while Telepresence seamlessly connects them to the microservices and test databases they rely on. It simplifies and expedites collaborative development, debugging, and testing within Kubernetes environments by establishing a seamless connection between your local machine and shared remote Kubernetes clusters. Why Telepresence: Faster feedback loops: Spend less time building, containerizing, and deploying code. Get immediate feedback on code changes by running your service in the cloud from your local machine. Shift testing left: Create a remote-to-local debugging experience. Catch bugs pre-production without the configuration headache of remote debugging. Deliver better, faster user experience: Get new features and applications into the hands of users faster and more frequently.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Strong Network

    Strong Network

    Strong Network

    Strong Network allows the management of containers for DevOps online (as opposed to locally on developers laptop) and access them through a cloud IDE or a SSH connection (in the case of a local IDE). These containers provide a complete management of access keys and credentials to multiple types of resources, in addition to providing data loss prevention (DLP). In addition we combine the IDE with a secure chrome browser (remote browser isolation) such that any third party applications for DevOps can be accessed with DLP. This platform is a complete replacement for VDI/DaaS for code development. Our platform allows the provisioning and management of containers for development online (as opposed to locally on developers' laptops, using a solution like docker desktop for example) and enables accessing them through a cloud IDE or a SSH connection (in the case of a local IDE).
    Starting Price: $39
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    Platform9

    Platform9

    Platform9

    Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our platform uniquely combines ease of use with flexibility, integrating seamlessly with existing storage and server infrastructure as well as other enterprise platforms. With automated migration tools, open APIs, and flexible deployment options—self-hosted, air-gapped, or SaaS—Platform9 gives you the freedom to run your private cloud, your way. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It delivers a familiar management experience for virtualization teams—with the ability to run VMs and containers side by side—and enterprise-grade features including High Availability, live migration, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, Software Defined Networking, Self Service, and secure multi-tenancy. Hundreds of enterprises, including Rackspace Technology, Cloudera, and Juniper Networks use Platform9 today.
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    Azure Container Registry
    Build, store, secure, scan, replicate, and manage container images and artifacts with a fully managed, geo-replicated instance of OCI distribution. Connect across environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Red Hat OpenShift, and across Azure services like App Service, Machine Learning, and Batch. Geo-replication to efficiently manage a single registry across multiple regions. OCI artifact repository for adding helm charts, singularity support, and new OCI artifact-supported formats. Automated container building and patching including base image updates and task scheduling. Integrated security with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication, role-based access control, Docker content trust, and virtual network integration. Streamline building, testing, pushing, and deploying images to Azure with Azure Container Registry Tasks.
    Starting Price: $0.167 per day
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    Azure App Service
    Quickly build, deploy, and scale web apps and APIs on your terms. Work with .NET, .NET Core, Node.js, Java, Python or PHP, in containers or running on Windows or Linux. Meet rigorous, enterprise-grade performance, security and compliance requirements used a trusted, fully managed platform that handles over 40 billion requests per day. Fully managed platform with built-in infrastructure maintenance, security patching, and scaling. Built-in CI/CD integration and zero-downtime deployments. Rigorous security and compliance, including SOC and PCI, for seamless deployments across public cloud, Azure Government, and on-premises environments. Bring your code or container using the framework language of your choice. Increase developer productivity with tight integration of Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Streamline CI/CD with Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Atlassian Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Azure Container Registry.
    Starting Price: $0.013 per hour
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    Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
    Easily handle multicluster scenarios for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters such as workload propagation, north-south load balancing (for traffic flowing into member clusters), and upgrade orchestration across multiple clusters. Fleet cluster enables centralized management of all your clusters at scale. The managed hub cluster takes care of the upgrades and Kubernetes cluster configuration for you. Kubernetes configuration propagation lets you use policies and overrides to disseminate objects across fleet member clusters. North-south load balancer orchestrates traffic flow across workloads deployed in multiple member clusters of the fleet. Group any combination of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to simplify multi-cluster workflows like Kubernetes configuration propagation and multi-cluster networking. Fleet requires a hub Kubernetes cluster to store configurations for placement policy and multicluster networking.
    Starting Price: $0.10 per cluster per hour
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    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    D2iQ

    D2iQ Enterprise Kubernetes Platform (DKP) Run Kubernetes Workloads at Scale DKP includes everything you need to ease Kubernetes adoption, expand Kubernetes use, and enable advanced workloads across any infrastructure, whether on-prem, on the cloud, in air-gapped environments, or at the edge. Built to Solve the Toughest Enterprise Kubernetes Challenges Created to accelerate the journey to production at scale, DKP provides a single, centralized point of control to build, run, and manage applications across any infrastructure. Enable Day 2 Readiness Out-of-the-Box Without Lock-In DKP takes care of the heavy lifting by providing a comprehensive, enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution and a full stack of CNCF-certified Day 2 platform applications that are integrated, automated, and tested at scale for an out-of-the-box, production-ready experience.
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    Engine Yard

    Engine Yard

    Engine Yard

    The full-stack Ruby on Rails DevOps experts. Engine Yard is up to 90% cheaper than hiring an internal DevOps team. A decade of experience optimizing and contributing back to open source. We are here to help you. Global support engineers to watch over your application day and night. Let us stay up so you don’t have to. The best Ruby DevOps in the world to help you troubleshoot or optimize your code base. No need to hire in-house DevOps. Global support engineers to watch over your application day and night. Let us stay up so you don’t have to.
    Starting Price: $25 per month
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    CloudPlex

    CloudPlex

    CloudPlex

    CloudPlex is an enterprise cloud enablement platform that meets both the technical and business needs of the enterprise for running their applications in the cloud. It handles all key aspects of managing apps including governance, security, orchestration and cost management. The platform manages cloud-native, container-based and legacy applications on all major public clouds in a unified manner. It enables a completely automated application provisioning and orchestration process. CloudPlex addresses the business needs of the enterprise by providing a complete estimation, review, approval and change management workflow of cloud-spend, as well as end-to-end license management.
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    Spot Ocean

    Spot Ocean

    Spot by NetApp

    Spot Ocean lets you reap the benefits of Kubernetes without worrying about infrastructure while gaining deep cluster visibility and dramatically reducing costs. The key question is how to use containers without the operational overhead of managing the underlying VMs while also take advantage of the cost benefits associated with Spot Instances and multi-cloud. Spot Ocean is built to solve this problem by managing containers in a “Serverless” environment. Ocean provides an abstraction on top of virtual machines allowing to deploy Kubernetes clusters without the need to manage the underlying VMs. Ocean takes advantage of multiple compute purchasing options like Reserved and Spot instance pricing and failover to On-Demand instances whenever necessary, providing 80% reduction in infrastructure costs. Spot Ocean is a Serverless Compute Engine that abstracts the provisioning (launching), auto-scaling, and management of worker nodes in Kubernetes clusters.
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    Azure Container Instances
    Develop apps fast without managing virtual machines or having to learn new tools—it's just your application, in a container, running in the cloud. By running your workloads in Azure Container Instances (ACI), you can focus on designing and building your applications instead of managing the infrastructure that runs them. Deploy containers to the cloud with unprecedented simplicity and speed—with a single command. Use ACI to provision additional compute for demanding workloads whenever you need. For example, with the Virtual Kubelet, use ACI to elastically burst from your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster when traffic comes in spikes. Gain the security of virtual machines for your container workloads, while preserving the efficiency of lightweight containers. ACI provides hypervisor isolation for each container group to ensure containers run in isolation without sharing a kernel.
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    Triton SmartOS
    Triton SmartOS combines the capabilities you get from a lightweight container OS, optimized to deliver containers, with the robust security, networking and storage capabilities you’ve come to expect and depend on from a hardware hypervisor. Triton SmartOS leverages Zones, a hardened container runtime environment that does not depend upon VM hosts for security. Patented resource protections insulate containers and ensure that each container gets its fair share of I/O. Triton SmartOS eliminates the complexities associated with VM host dependent solutions. Built-in networking offers each container one or more network interfaces, so each container has a full IP stack and is a full peer on the network, eliminating port conflicts and making network management easy. Secure, isolated, resizable filesystems for each container. The speed of bare metal performance + the flexibility of virtualization.
    Starting Price: $0.009 per GB per month
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    IBM Cloud Container Registry
    Store and distribute container images in a fully managed private registry. Push private images to conveniently run them in the IBM Cloud® Kubernetes Service and other runtime environments. Images are checked for security issues so you can make informed decisions about your deployments. Install the IBM Cloud Container Registry CLI to use the command line to manage your name spaces and Docker images in the IBM Cloud® private registry. View information about potential vulnerabilities and the security of images in the IBM Cloud Container Registry public and private repositories with the IBM Cloud console. Check the security status of container images that are provided by IBM, third parties or that are added to your organization's registry namespace. Advanced capabilities for security compliance insight. Access controls and image signing capabilities. Pre-integration with Kubernetes Service.
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    Mirantis Container Cloud
    Provisioning and managing cloud native infrastructure doesn’t have to be a moonshot. In fact, it can be as simple as point-and-click. Mirantis Container Cloud gives administrators and developers the power to deploy Kubernetes and OpenStack environments from a single pane of glass—across on-prem, hosted bare metal, and public cloud. No more scheduling work around updates. Get access to new features faster—with zero downtime for clusters and workloads. Give your developers the power to effortlessly create, observe, and manage Kubernetes clusters, all with custom guardrails. Mirantis Container Cloud gives you a single console to manage your entire hybrid infrastructure estate. Mirantis Container Cloud deploys, manages, and maintains both Mirantis Kubernetes Engine container-based deployments and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes virtualization environments.
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    Azure Red Hat OpenShift
    Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience. Highly available, fully managed public and private clusters, automated operations, and over-the-air platform upgrades. Take advantage of the enhanced user interface for application topology and builds in the web console to build, deploy, configure, and visualize containerized applications and cluster resources more easily.
    Starting Price: $0.44 per hour
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    AWS App2Container
    AWS App2Container (A2C) is a command line tool for migrating and modernizing Java and .NET web applications into container format. AWS A2C analyzes and builds an inventory of applications running in bare metal, virtual machines, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, or in the cloud. Save on infrastructure and training costs by streamlining application development and operational skill sets. Accelerate modernization with automatic analysis of applications and autogenerated container images. Containerize applications running in your data center without code changes. Migrate and modernize legacy applications while standardizing the deployment and operations of your applications. Use AWS CloudFormation templates that configure required compute, network, and security infrastructure. Use pre-created continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for AWS DevOps services.
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    Joyent Triton
    Single Tenant Public Cloud with all the security, savings and control of private cloud. Fully Managed by Joyent. Single Tenant Security, Full Operations control over your Private Cloud with Installation, Onboarding and Support provided by Joyent. Open Source or Commercial support for on-premises, user managed private cloud. Built to deliver VMs, containers and bare metal. Built to support exabyte-scale workloads. Joyent engineers provide 360 degree support for modern application architectures, including microservices, apis, development frameworks and container-native devops tooling. Hybrid, Modern and Open, Triton is engineered to run the world’s largest cloud native applications.
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    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda

    Apprenda Cloud Platform empowers enterprise IT to create a Kubernetes-enabled shared service on the infrastructures of their choice and offer it to developers across business units. ACP supports your entire custom application portfolio. Rapidly build, deploy, run, and manage cloud-native, microservices, and container-based .NET and Java applications or modernize traditional workloads. ACP gives your developers self-service access to the tools they need to rapidly build applications, while IT operators can very easily orchestrate the environments and workflows. Enterprise IT becomes a true service provider. ACP is a single platform spanning your multiple data- centers and clouds. Run ACP on-premise or consume it as a managed service on the public cloud; both with the assurance of complete infrastructure independence. ACP enables policy-driven control over all of your application workloads' infrastructure utilization and DevOps processes.
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    Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator
    To sell cloud, you lease your virtualized infrastructure, ease and track cloud usage within a customer organization and find new routes to reach the largest cloud market. A cloud business won’t scale without a completely automated billing process. A prerequisite for success is the ability to bill and take payments based on accurately measured consumption data. Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator includes a fully integrated billing system for your fastest go-to-market opportunity. Integrating Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator into your existing workflows is extremely easy thanks to its powerful API and extensible interface. Your customers want to have a choice. To lower the risk of migration, or simply to preserve their application certification, they want to be able to decide which hypervisor should power their workload. A dynamic workload placement algorithm to make the most sensible decision on where to start a virtual machine.
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    Fairwinds Insights

    Fairwinds Insights

    Fairwinds Ops

    Protect and optimize your mission-critical Kubernetes applications. Fairwinds Insights is a Kubernetes configuration validation platform that proactively monitors your Kubernetes and container configurations and recommends improvements. The software combines trusted open source tools, toolchain integrations, and SRE expertise based on hundreds of successful Kubernetes deployments. Balancing the velocity of engineering with the reactionary pace of security can result in messy Kubernetes configurations and unnecessary risk. Trial-and-error efforts to adjust CPU and memory settings eats into engineering time and can result in over-provisioning data center capacity or cloud compute. Traditional monitoring tools are critical, but don’t provide everything needed to proactively identify changes to maintain reliable Kubernetes workloads.
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    AWS Fargate
    AWS Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Fargate makes it easy for you to focus on building your applications. Fargate removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design. Fargate allocates the right amount of compute, eliminating the need to choose instances and scale cluster capacity. You only pay for the resources required to run your containers, so there is no over-provisioning and paying for additional servers. Fargate runs each task or pod in its own kernel providing the tasks and pods their own isolated compute environment. This enables your application to have workload isolation and improved security by design.
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    ArvanCloud

    ArvanCloud

    ArvanCloud

    ArvanCloud CDN comprises tens of PoP sites in important locations all around the world to deliver online content to the users, from the closest geographical point at the highest speed and quality. With ArvanCloud Cloud Computing infrastructure, you are just a few clicks away from creating unlimited cloud servers on demand. You can create several cloud storage disks for each server and easily manage your cloud data center communications using Firewall and private and public networks. ArvanCloud allows you to save any kind of data on Cloud Storage in a completely encrypted format. You can have stable access to a reliable storage system from all around the world, without worrying about data loss. With ArvanCloud container-based Platform as a Service, which conforms to Kubernetes standards, you are just a few commands in CLI away from an operational product.
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