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