A real cluster, in about two minutes
No cloud account. Nothing to install. A writable Kubernetes environment that is yours alone, with a starter app already answering over HTTPS by the time you get there.
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Four steps, and you are the one typing
The recording above follows exactly this, start to finish, with nothing cut.
Start it
One click in the portal, or one command in your terminal. There is no cloud account to connect, no credit card, and nothing to install locally.
ankra cluster playground createWatch it come up
Four provisioning steps run in front of you. In the recording the cluster reports ready in eighty-two seconds; about two minutes is the honest number to plan around.
ankra cluster list --watchFind it already serving
A starter application is live on its own hostname over HTTPS before you have typed anything. It is a real workload on a real cluster, not a screenshot of one.
curl -I https://<your-playground>.ankra.appShip something of your own
Deploy a stack onto it through the same pipeline your production deploys use. What you learn here is not throwaway knowledge about a sandbox dialect.
ankra cluster apply -f stack.yamlEverything in it is the real thing
A sandbox that fakes the interesting parts teaches you nothing about the product. This one does not fake any of them.
Real nodes, real pods
kubectl works. Nodes report capacity, pods schedule and restart, events land where you expect them. Nothing is stubbed for the demo.
Real TLS, real hostname
Your workloads get a public HTTPS hostname with a certificate that actually validates, so you can point a browser or a webhook at them.
Yours alone
The environment is writable and it is yours - not a shared read-only tour where the interesting buttons are disabled.
The same platform
Stacks, add-ons, GitOps and the AI assistant behave exactly as they do on a cluster you own, because it is the same control plane.
A playground is for learning, not for production
It exists so you can find out whether Ankra fits how your team works, without a procurement conversation first.
When you are ready for something that outlives the experiment, the next step is a cluster of your own: import one you already run, or have Ankra build one on your account with a provider you choose. The stacks you wrote in the playground move across as they are - they are standard Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests, and they were never playground dialect to begin with.
From prompt to production.
No tickets in between.
Describe what you want to ship and let Ankra's AI generate, deploy, and operate it. Free forever for small teams.