Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS)

Kubernetes as a Service (KaaS) offers customers Kubernetes clusters with full administrator rights.

Kubernetes is a management system for containerised workloads and services. This is not about running a container individually, but about managing a workload that is distributed across different containers (pods). Here, the basic ideas, such as scalability and availa­bility, are the main focus. These are achieved through the distribution of the individual functions to different containers and the cooperation of several containers in a network for one function in order to realise fail-safety.

Taking these basic ideas into account, the maintenance of the service for a provided workload is also uninterruptible.

The Kubernetes clusters are integrated into the customer VPZ, and the customer receives all rights to use the cluster.

The Kubernetes lifecycle is prepared and can be initiated by the customer.

The sizing of the Kubernetes cluster is done according to customer requirements and can be scaled horizontally (more worker nodes) and vertically (resource expansion per worker node) later on.

• Customers receive their own Kubernetes cluster with administrative rights.
  
• Upgrades are prepared and can be carried out by customers themselves.
  
• The customer does not have to take care of the server infrastructure themselves (procurement, maintenance, renewal).
  
• ETH's own high-performance infrastructure is used with an availability of over 99.8%(virtual server service).