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Drive Innovation with Modern Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

Accelerate growth with cloud infrastructure that streamlines operations across your entire IT estate, consolidates cluster sprawl, and reduces compliance risks across any environment.

k0rdent delivers infrastructure as a service that can provision VMs and containers from a single composable control plane, wherever you deploy: bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, or GCP. Declarative automation, configuration reconciliation, and reusable templates reduce manual effort while also ensuring predictable, compliant deployments.

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ACCELERATE BUSINESS GROWTH FOR NEOCLOUDS

Infrastructure as a service that turns complexity into a competitive advantage. k0rdent empowers Neoclouds to aggressively scale their business without escalating operational toil. Build your brand by quickly launching value-added services, with a turnkey platform to handle full-stack infrastructure management, from bare metal and the operating system to virtualization and Kubernetes. Serve more customers with existing resources, and confidently expand into regulated markets that demand enterprise-grade security and compliance.

Our composable platform handles the infrastructure heavy lifting with continuous configuration reconciliation, so you can focus on growing revenue and differentiating your offerings.

Launch New Services Faster: Modular templates and declarative automation let you provision compliant, multi-tenant infrastructure in minutes instead of weeks, accelerating revenue generation from new offerings.

Maximize Infrastructure ROI: Provision containers and VMs from a single control plane to increase hardware utilization, reduce operational overhead, and serve more customers without expanding your footprint.

Meet Enterprise Compliance Requirements: Built-in RBAC, authentication, auditing, and automated change logs ensure you can confidently serve regulated industries, including financial services, healthcare, and government.

Drive Enterprise Innovation and Efficiency

Modernize infrastructure to streamline operations.

k0rdent enables enterprises to accelerate digital transformation while maintaining the security, compliance, and control that business-critical workloads demand. Configuration reconciliation enables smaller teams to manage more clusters with less effort and respond faster to changing demands. By eliminating infrastructure silos and reducing operational complexity, your IT teams can focus more on customer-facing innovation, delivering new capabilities faster while reducing costs and risk.

Accelerate Application Delivery with Automation: Deploy new services 50% faster using cluster and service templates and automated workflows.

Cut Infrastructure Costs by Reducing Deployment Sprawl: Consolidate sprawling environments and increase resource efficiency. Built-in observability provides full visibility into utilization, performance, and spending.

Automate Compliance Across Hybrid Environments: Ensure adherence to regulatory standards with configuration reconciliation, secure multi-tenancy, built-in observability, and auditable change logs.

Maintain Centralized Governance: Enforce operational consistency across clusters with resource quotas and policy enforcement.

k0rdent provides one central place to deploy clusters across bare metal, on-prem, and public clouds

Flexible Infrastructure for Every Use Case

MULTI-CLUSTER

Multi-Cluster Deployments

For Neoclouds:

k0rdent enables neoclouds to launch Kubernetes services faster while controlling operational costs. When customers demand diverse cluster configurations, you face support complexity and security risks. k0rdent provides unified lifecycle management, enabling curated services with consistent SLAs and security. Reduce overhead, accelerate launches, and improve margins by standardizing operations while maintaining the flexibility customers need. Discover, secure, and manage all clusters from one control plane.

For Enterprises:

k0rdent eliminates the costs of Kubernetes sprawl that slow innovation. When teams deploy incompatible cluster flavors, you face technical debt, vulnerabilities, and complexity, diverting resources from strategic work. k0rdent rationalizes and reconciles your existing estate, identifies compliance gaps and CVEs, then standardizes configurations to reduce risk. Lower operational costs, accelerate troubleshooting, ensure compliance, and redirect teams from managing fragmentation to delivering business outcomes.

Features:

Reduce Operational Complexity and Costs: Consolidate management of disparate clusters under unified control, freeing teams from firefighting incompatibilities and enabling focus on innovation.

Identify Security Vulnerabilities and Compliance Gaps: Automatically detect clusters with known CVEs, misconfigurations, and policy violations that expose your organization to risk.

Standardize Clusters with Declarative Templates: Eliminate fragmentation by deploying consistent, compliant Kubernetes configurations across all environments, reducing technical debt.

Discover all Kubernetes Clusters Across Your Environment: Gain complete visibility into every cluster running across teams and locations, identifying incompatible versions and unknown deployments.

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HYBRID MULTICLOUD

Hybrid & Multicloud Deployments

For Telecom Operators:

Telecom operators run complex mixed environments, which may combine VMware, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. Managing these distinct platforms separately creates operational friction that undermines their competitive advantage. k0rdent unifies this complexity under one control plane, allowing operators to manage their diverse infrastructure as a cohesive platform.

For Enterprises:

Enterprises inherit infrastructure complexity through acquisitions and legacy investments, while business units often choose preferred providers — creating silos that drain resources and slow innovation. k0rdent eliminates this friction by unifying management across clouds, data centers, and edge locations under one control plane. The business impact is immediate: you can consolidate ops teams, deployment cycles compress from weeks to minutes, and infrastructure costs become predictable and controllable.

Features:

Maximize Infrastructure ROI: Optimize workload placement intelligently to increase utilization rates, reducing capital expenditure while improving service delivery and profitability.

Unify Operations Across Platforms: Optionality to deploy bare metal, VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, and GCP, without requiring separate tools and expertise for each platform.

Enforce Continuous Compliance: Automatically apply security standards and regulatory requirements across all environments with policy-driven automation and configuration reconciliation.

Reduced Operational Overhead at Scale: Leverage configuration reconciliation to reduce operational toil and enable teams to focus on your core competencies.

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WORKLOAD MIGRATION

Workload Migration

For Neoclouds:

k0rdent gives neoclouds the freedom to build and operate their platforms across heterogeneous infrastructure. By leveraging declarative templates and Kubernetes-based orchestration, operators can deploy their platform infrastructure across owned bare metal, leased data centers, or selectively use public cloud resources—all managed through a unified control plane. The platform’s broad ecosystem compatibility ensures neoclouds aren’t locked into specific hardware vendors or proprietary technologies as they scale.

For Enterprises:

k0rdent enables enterprises to escape cloud vendor lock-in while maintaining operational consistency across their entire infrastructure estate. Workload migration through declarative templates and Kubernetes-based orchestration allows IT teams to deploy applications across on-premises data centers, multiple public clouds, and edge locations based on business requirements rather than technical limitations.

This flexibility directly addresses the need to optimize cloud spending without compromising application performance or security postures.

Features:

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Support: Native support for bare metal, private clouds, edge, and public clouds. Deploy workloads across heterogeneous infrastructure while unifying management and standardizing operations.

Kubernetes Provisioning and Lifecycle Management: Consistent, secure deployment of Kubernetes services across all infrastructure layers.

Declarative Template-Based Provisioning: Infra-as-code approach with declarative templates for compute, network, and storage automation allows workload configurations to be version-controlled and reproduced identically anywhere.

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VIRTUALIZATION

Virtualization

For Neoclouds:

k0rdent enables neoclouds to modernize their virtualization infrastructure while provisioning VMs and containers from a single Kubernetes-native platform. This eliminates the overhead of maintaining separate infrastructures, while also providing an alternative to costly proprietary solutions. The platform supports AI workloads with NUMA topology preservation, CPU pinning, and GPU passthrough capabilities, enabling monetization of new AI offerings. Hard multi-tenancy provides true tenant isolation, enabling secure hosting with a “shared-nothing” approach.

For Enterprises:

Enterprises facing rising virtualization costs and increasing ops complexity need infrastructure that adapts to both current demands and future needs. k0rdent unifies VMs and containers on a Kubernetes-native platform and offers a modern alternative to costly proprietary virtualization. The platform’s declarative automation and API-driven approach transform operations. k0rdent accelerates deployment cycles through GitOps workflows and validated templates, enabling faster time-to-market while maintaining consistency across environments.

Features:

Unified VM and Container Management: Run virtual machines alongside containers on a single modern Kubernetes-native platform, eliminating dual infrastructure overhead and reducing operational complexity.

Cost Reduction through Open Source: Replace expensive proprietary licensing with an open source-based platform, delivering TCO savings while maintaining enterprise-grade capabilities.

Automated Resource Optimization: The Dynamic Resource Balancer automatically redistributes VMs across nodes to maintain optimal performance and resource utilization.

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PRIVATE CLOUDS

Private Clouds

For Neoclouds:

For neoclouds building profitable cloud services, Mirantis Kubernetes-native private clouds deliver bare metal and virtualization at scale with the operational efficiency and advanced capabilities needed for sustainable growth. By containerizing OpenStack on Kubernetes, Mirantis provides self-healing infrastructure that automatically recovers from failures and scales during demand spikes, reducing operational overhead while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability. Rolling upgrades happen without downtime, keeping you current with upstream innovations while protecting service commitments.

For Enterprises:

For enterprises seeking control over their infrastructure roadmap, Mirantis delivers a modern, future-proof private cloud platform. The Kubernetes-native architecture makes VM infrastructure more resilient and manageable rather than more complex—control plane components self-heal automatically, updates roll out without downtime, and capacity scales to meet demand without constant engineering intervention. This operational efficiency translates directly into lower TCO and faster time-to-value for business initiatives.

Features:

Kubernetes-Native Resilience and Automation: OpenStack services run as containers on Kubernetes, delivering self-healing infrastructure with automatic respawning, horizontal scaling, and rolling upgrades.

Bare Metal Lifecycle Management: Automate server discovery, provisioning, and OS deployment with integrated BMC management and immutable OS images.

Enterprise Security, Compliance, and Air-Gapped Support: Apply centralized policy enforcement, role-based access, and observability out of the box. FIPS 140-2 validated encryption adds further protection.

Fully-Managed Remote Ops: Managed services with guaranteed availability SLA allow your teams to focus on your core competency, rather than handling day-to-day operations.

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LET’S TALK

We see Mirantis as a strategic partner who can help us provide higher performance and greater success as we expand our cloud computing services internationally.

— Aurelio Forese, Head of Cloud, Netsons

We see Mirantis as a strategic partner who can help us provide higher performance and greater success as we expand our cloud computing services internationally.

— Aurelio Forese, Head of Cloud, Netsons

FAQ

What Is Managed Infrastructure as a Service?

Managed infrastructure as a service is a service delivery model where a provider supplies infrastructure as a service (compute, storage, and networking) and takes responsibility for operating, monitoring, securing, and maintaining that infrastructure on behalf of the customer.

Unlike traditional IaaS, where internal teams manage day-to-day operations, managed IaaS offloads tasks such as patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and availability management. This allows organizations to focus more on applications and business outcomes rather than infrastructure operations.

What Problems Does Infrastructure as a Service Solve for Enterprise IT Teams?

Infrastructure as a service helps enterprise IT teams address several common problems such as:

High capital costs by shifting from hardware purchases to consumption-based pricing
Limited scalability by enabling on-demand provisioning of resources
Operational complexity by standardizing infrastructure across environments
Slow time to value by accelerating application deployment

IaaS is especially valuable for organizations modernizing legacy infrastructure, supporting hybrid or multi-cloud strategies, or responding to fluctuating workload demands.

IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS: What Are the Key Differences?

IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provides raw compute, storage, and networking resources. Customers retain control over operating systems, middleware, and applications; this makes IaaS the most flexible option, but also the most operationally demanding.

PaaS (Platform as a Service) traditionally refers to a fully managed application platform that includes predefined runtimes, frameworks, databases, and development tools. Classic proprietary PaaS offerings are highly opinionated: applications must be built and operated using the provider’s prescribed components and workflows. This approach is often too heavy for simple workloads or too limited for specialized requirements. On the other hand, newer approaches such as Mirantis k0rdent allow teams to assemble composable platforms tailored to specific workloads, enabling platform engineers to create a custom PaaS that can incorporate security, compliance, and cost controls as part of the platform definition.

SaaS (Software as a Service) delivers fully managed applications accessed by end users, with minimal control over the underlying infrastructure or platform. It requires the least operation effort but offers the least flexibility.

The key difference is the level of operational control versus responsibility. IaaS offers the most flexibility, while SaaS requires the least management effort.

What Are Managed Infrastructure Services?

Managed infrastructure services are the operational capabilities and support functions used to run and maintain infrastructure environments. These services typically include monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, security hardening, and compliance management.

Unlike managed infrastructure as a service, which is a full delivery model, managed infrastructure services can be applied to a wide range of environments such as IaaS, private cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructure.

What Are the Main Benefits of Managed IaaS?

One of the main benefits of managed IaaS is that it reduces the operational burden on internal IT teams by shifting day-to-day infrastructure management to a service provider. Managed IaaS also improves reliability and uptime through proactive monitoring and standardized operational practices, while enabling faster responses to incident and infrastructure issues. Additionally, organizations benefit from more predictable operational costs and access to specialized infrastructure expertise.

How Do IaaS Managed Services Enhance Security and Compliance?

IaaS managed services enhance security and compliance by applying consistent controls, policies, and monitoring across infrastructure environments. These services typically include regular patching, vulnerability management, secure configuration baselines, and centralized logging.

By embedding security into ongoing infrastructure operations, organizations reduce risk, improve audit readiness, and maintain compliance without slowing down infrastructure provisioning or application delivery.

What Are the Most Common Use Cases for Managed IaaS Solutions?

How does Mirantis k0rdent Simplify Multi-Cloud Management?

Mirantis k0rdent simplifies multi-cloud management by providing centralized visibility and operational consistency across Kubernetes-based infrastructure environments. k0rdent helps organizations manage clusters across multiple clouds using common workflows and governance models, reducing fragmentation and operational complexity. This allows teams to standardize how infrastructure and workloads are deployed and managed, regardless of the underlying cloud or environment.

How Can an IaaS Management Platform Help Reduce Operational Costs?

An IaaS management platform helps reduce operational costs by automating routine infrastructure tasks and improving overall resource utilization. Centralized management and visibility make it easier to identify inefficiencies, enforce policies, and avoid overprovisioning. By reducing manual effort and improving control over infrastructure usage, organizations can lower both labor costs and infrastructure spend.

What Should Enterprises Consider When Evaluating Managed IaaS Providers?

When evaluating managed IaaS providers, enterprises should assess operational expertise, service-level commitments, and the provider’s ability to support hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Security, compliance capabilities, and transparency around pricing and cost controls are also critical considerations. The right provider should integrate well with existing tools and processes while supporting long-term infrastructure and business goals.

Drive Innovation with Modern Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Mirantis AI Factory Reference Architecture

ACCELERATE BUSINESS GROWTH FOR NEOCLOUDS

Drive Enterprise Innovation and Efficiency

Modernize infrastructure to streamline operations.

Flexible Infrastructure for Every Use Case

Multi-Cluster Deployments

For Neoclouds:

For Enterprises:

Features:

Hybrid & Multicloud Deployments

For Telecom Operators:

For Enterprises:

Features:

Workload Migration

For Neoclouds:

For Enterprises:

Features:

Virtualization

For Neoclouds:

For Enterprises:

Features:

Private Clouds

For Neoclouds:

For Enterprises:

Features:

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