A practical guide for IT leaders to scale cloud-native operations with consistency, security, and control—across datacenter, cloud, and edge.
This guide explains why cloud native initiatives often fail without a clear strategy and a unified platform. As organizations adopt containers and Kubernetes, fragmentation, operational complexity, and skills gaps slow progress and increase costs.
The solution is a single, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform that runs consistently across datacenter, cloud, and edge. Nutanix delivers this through the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) and Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK), providing centralized management, built-in security, integrated storage, and scalable operations.
Why Nutanix
Your Cloud Native Partner
Nutanix delivers a comprehensive enterprise Kubernetes solution designed to remove operational friction and enable consistent cloud native operations.
Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)
Built on pure upstream Kubernetes
Simplifies lifecycle management
Runs Kubernetes consistently across all environments
Integrates GenAI capabilities to reduce skills gaps
Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK)
Extends enterprise-grade data management to containerized apps
Ensures portability, security, resilience, and compliance
Key Capabilities of an Enterprise Kubernetes Platform
A modern Kubernetes platform should include:
Centralized control plane to manage clusters anywhere
Fleet management to deploy, scale, monitor, and update clusters in parallel
Built-in security & compliance with RBAC, authentication, and auditing
Integrated persistent storage for stateful applications