Thalassa Kubernetes Service

The Kubernetes as a Service for Dutch and European DevOps teams. We handle the complexity of running Kubernetes clusters, including infrastructure management, updates, and maintenance, while you focus on deploying and managing your applications.

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Thalassa Kubernetes Service is a fully managed Kubernetes Service, providing a robust foundation for your containerized workloads.

Highly Available Control Plane
  • The Kubernetes Control Plane is highly available across multiple availability zones
Integrated IAM and RBAC
  • Integrated IAM and RBAC for fine-grained access control
  • Role-based access control for different levels of access
  • Audit logs for all IAM and RBAC actions
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Fast Provisioning & Self-Service
  • Deploy Kubernetes clusters & Cloud Infrastructure in minute
  • Self-service infrastructure with instant provisioning
Automated Updates and Upgrades
  • Use Maintenace Schedules to define when updates and upgrades are applied.
  • Thalassa Cloud handles the complexity of updating and upgrading the Kubernetes components.
European Cloud with DevEx Focus
  • 100% EU-owned with GDPR-first design
  • Dutch datacenters with low latency
  • Fully focused on developer experience

The Cloud Platform for DevOps Teams in Europe

Thalassa Cloud is a trusted partner for cloud services, Infrastructure as a Service, Kubernetes and more. We offer a cloud platform optimized for modern cloud-native architectures. With everything fully API-driven, you can easily integrate with our platform and start building your cloud-native applications. For Developers, by Developers.

European Cloud for Cloud-Native Apps

The European Cloud platform optimized for modern cloud-native applications. Fully API-driven for seamless integration, empowering DevOps teams to build and deploy rapidly with confidence—by developers, for developers.

Trusted Partner for European Teams

Built in Europe for European DevOps and innovation. Security, compliance, and performance delivered from trusted Dutch infrastructure. Thalassa Cloud ensures your cloud journey aligns with EU standards and data sovereignty principles.

Thalassa Kubernetes Service

Thalassa Cloud's Kubernetes as a Service solution is a fully managed Kubernetes platform designed for European businesses. We handle the complexity of running Kubernetes clusters, including infrastructure management, updates, and maintenance, while you focus on deploying and managing your applications.

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Kubernetes as a Service

Use our Kubernetes as a Service offering to deploy your cloud-native applications in a fully independent European Cloud.

We use the latest version of Kubernetes and provide a fully managed service with no vendor lock-in. Our Kubernetes offering is fully CNCF compliant and built on top of our public cloud platform.

Vanilla Kubernetes Managed CSI

Autoscaling and Auto Healing

With Thalassa Cloud, Kubernetes clusters are optimized to grow with your needs. Autoscaling ensures seamless handling of traffic spikes, while auto-healing automatically replaces any unhealthy nodes, maintaining cluster stability.

Autoscaling Auto Healing

Advanced Network Customization

Thalassa Cloud's Kubernetes platform offers networking flexibility with support for Cilium CNI and custom CNIs. Cilium provides robust security policies, while custom CNI options allow you to adapt the networking to your application requirements.

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Speed and Efficiency

Deploy a production-ready Kubernetes cluster in under five minutes. Thalassa Cloud's efficient platform lets you bring new clusters online quickly, enhancing development speed and agility.

Rapid Deployment Under 5 Minutes

Node Pools and Automatic Upgrades

Easily manage different workloads with dedicated node pools, optimized for varied resource demands. Our automatic upgrade feature ensures your clusters stay current with the latest features and security updates without manual intervention.

Node Pools Automatic Upgrades

Kubernetes Identity & Access Management

Our Kubernetes platform includes a robust identity and access management system, ensuring that only authorized users can access your clusters and applications. This includes features like role-based access control (RBAC), service accounts, and audit logging. Protect and manage your Kubernetes RBAC rules across your entire organization, over multiple clusters.

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Why Choose Our Kubernetes as a Service?

Our Kubernetes as a Service solution is designed for modern cloud-native applications, providing a robust foundation for your containerized workloads. Built on industry-standard components and best practices, we deliver a fully managed Kubernetes service that combines performance, security, and flexibility.

With our European-based infrastructure, you get the benefits of data sovereignty while maintaining the agility and scalability that Kubernetes is known for. Our service is optimized for high availability and performance, ensuring your applications run smoothly and reliably.

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Kubernetes Use Cases

Deploy Kubernetes clusters for a wide range of cloud-native workloads, from microservices to data processing.

Microservices Architecture

Deploy and manage microservices-based applications with automatic scaling, service discovery, and load balancing. Perfect for modern application architectures.

  • Containerized microservices
  • Service mesh integration
  • API gateways and routing
  • Distributed systems
CI/CD & DevOps Pipelines

Run CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and development environments on Kubernetes. Integrate with GitOps tools like ArgoCD and Flux for automated deployments.

  • Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
  • GitOps with ArgoCD and Flux
  • Automated deployments
  • Development environments
Web Applications & APIs

Host production web applications, REST APIs, and GraphQL services with high availability, auto-scaling, and integrated load balancing.

  • Production web applications
  • REST and GraphQL APIs
  • Load-balanced services
  • High availability deployments
Data Processing & Analytics

Run data processing workloads, batch jobs, and analytics pipelines. Scale processing resources up or down based on workload demands.

  • Batch processing jobs
  • ETL pipelines
  • Data analytics workloads
  • Machine learning training
Stateful Applications

Deploy stateful applications like databases, message queues, and caching layers with persistent storage and high availability configurations.

  • Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB)
  • Message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
  • Redis and caching layers
  • StatefulSets and persistent volumes
Multi-Tenant Platforms

Build multi-tenant SaaS platforms and internal developer platforms with namespace isolation, resource quotas, and role-based access control.

  • SaaS platforms
  • Internal developer platforms
  • Namespace isolation
  • Resource quotas and limits

Frequently Asked Questions

Thalassa Cloud's Kubernetes Service is a fully managed Kubernetes platform designed for European businesses. We handle the complexity of running Kubernetes clusters, including infrastructure management, updates, and maintenance, while you focus on deploying and managing your applications. Our service is built on industry-standard components and offers features like automatic scaling, self-healing, and advanced networking with Cilium CNI.

Our Kubernetes infrastructure is located in Europe, specifically in the Netherlands. This ensures compliance with European data protection regulations and provides low-latency access for European customers. All data is stored and processed within the European Union, giving you full control over your data sovereignty.

Our Kubernetes service includes:
  • Highly available Control Planes out-of-the-box
  • Fully managed control plane and worker nodes
  • Automatic scaling and self-healing capabilities
  • Advanced networking with Cilium CNI
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) and service accounts
  • Comprehensive audit logging
  • Automatic updates and security patches
  • Multi-zone high availability
  • 24/7 monitoring and support

Security is a top priority for our Kubernetes service. We implement multiple layers of security:
  • Regular security updates and patches
  • Network policies and pod security policies
  • Encryption at rest and in transit
  • Compliance with European data protection regulations
  • Regular security audits and penetration testing
  • Detailed audit logging for all cluster activities

Our control plane architecture is designed for maximum reliability and security:
  • Dedicated control planes for each cluster with isolated etcd clusters
  • Full redundancy across three availability zones
  • Auto-healing for all control plane components
  • Control planes isolated within our secure management network
  • Secure access through VPC endpoints
  • Automatic failover and recovery capabilities
This architecture ensures your Kubernetes clusters maintain high availability and security, even during infrastructure maintenance or unexpected events.

You can deploy a production-ready Kubernetes cluster in under five minutes through our API or web console. Our automated provisioning system ensures consistent and reliable cluster deployment every time. You can also use our API to automate cluster creation as part of your CI/CD pipeline.

We provide comprehensive support for our Kubernetes service:
  • 24/7 Incident Response for critical issues
  • Dedicated support team with Kubernetes expertise
  • Regular updates and maintenance windows
  • Documentation and best practices guides
  • Training and onboarding assistance
  • Proactive monitoring and alerting

We support the latest three Kubernetes versions in accordance with the official Kubernetes Version Policy. Our version support strategy includes:
  • Support for the latest three Kubernetes versions
  • New versions made available after comprehensive testing
  • Full conformance testing with CNCF standards
  • Regular security updates and patches

We run upstream vanilla Kubernetes, which means:
  • No vendor lock-in with proprietary distributions
  • Full compatibility with any vanilla CNCF Kubernetes distribution
  • Direct access to upstream Kubernetes features
  • Standard Kubernetes APIs and tooling support
  • Easy migration to and from other Kubernetes platforms

European Public Cloud

DevOps-First Cloud

Deploy and manage your cloud-native applications with our European based public cloud. Access powerful APIs, Kubernetes orchestration, and DevOps tools designed for modern infrastructure.

GDPR Compliant

EU Data Sovereignty

API First

Terraform & REST API

Kubernetes

Self-Service Kubernetes as a Service

High Performance

NVMe Storage, CPU and network

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