Platform Engineering

A new name, a new engine, and the biggest release we have ever shipped: the Go rewrite, an AI that owns the incident loop, passkey security, European multi-cloud, and Ankra on your phone.

Kubermatic KKP is an open source factory for manufacturing Kubernetes clusters at density, and you are the one who runs the factory. Ankra is the platform your team does not have to operate. An honest comparison from a fellow European vendor.

'Don't use Kubernetes until you have a platform team' was good advice in 2019. The premises changed. What a two-to-six person company should set up in week one, what to deliberately skip, and what it actually costs: about zero.

New Ankra clusters no longer run ArgoCD. Here is the engineering story of the native deployment engine: why we built it, how the reconcile loop works, what the migration does to your live resources (nothing), and what we have not finished yet.

Spectro Cloud's Palette is a serious enterprise platform for provisioning Kubernetes estates from the OS up. Ankra is an AI-native platform for running everything that happens on Kubernetes from the app down. The honest comparison, including when Palette is the right call.

Cursor is good at application code but loses context the moment a change crosses into Kubernetes, Helm, and CD pipelines. Adding the Ankra CLI as an infrastructure subagent gives it cluster-aware grounding so developers and platform teams can work on the same artifacts.

AI agents have wiped real production databases this year. Replit's went down during a code freeze, Cursor's took nine seconds via Terraform. Here's how Ankra's draft-first, GitOps-backed AI gives teams a senior DevOps agent without that failure mode.

Komodor's Klaudia is a good AI SRE. Ankra is the next step: an AI that operates the full lifecycle of your apps and infrastructure, runs on any Kubernetes you bring, and keeps Git as the source of truth. Here's the honest comparison.