Mirantis has announced a significant expansion of the validated integration ecosystem for its open source k0rdent project, dramatically increasing the tools available for deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments.
The k0rdent Application Catalog now offers 92 validated infrastructure and software integrations, a major increase from 19 at its March launch.
These integrations speed implementation and simplify operations for cloud-native and AI workloads using declarative automation and production-ready templates.
k0rdent enables Kubernetes cluster deployment and management across data centers, AWS, Azure, OpenStack, and VMware vSphere.
The project leverages the open source Cluster API for consistent cluster lifecycle management everywhere.
New notable integrations include Calico for networking/security, Datadog for unified observability, and Dell storage platforms for dynamic persistent storage.
The expanding ecosystem aims to reduce infrastructure costs and complexity by eliminating operational silos through unified management.
The core value of the growing k0rdent Application Catalog lies in its ability to empower platform teams. By providing a centralized repository of validated integrations and templates, k0rdent tackles infrastructure sprawl and operational complexity. It simplifies maintenance across cloud service providers and on-premises infrastructure using declarative automation, centralized policy enforcement, and optimized templates for modern workloads like AI.
This approach directly addresses the transformative pressure AI workloads place on enterprise IT. “As AI workload requirements transform enterprise IT requirements, we need to be able to support rapid innovation change in a sustainable way,” said Shaun O’Meara, chief technology officer, Mirantis. “By eliminating operational silos through unified management and orchestration and providing choice through a growing list of critical integrations, k0rdent is helping to reduce infrastructure costs. This enables users to compose their infrastructure tailored to their requirements.”
The continuously updated catalog ensures platform teams have access to the latest tools. Among the most recent additions are solutions that address critical needs in networking, observability, and storage for stateful AI workloads.
The Calico integration provides a GitOps-driven method to deploy and manage Kubernetes networking and zero-trust security across on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or edge locations. For comprehensive monitoring, the Datadog integration aggregates metrics, logs, traces, and security data into a single interface for real-time analysis and troubleshooting. For enterprises with significant data requirements, the Dell storage integration manages stateful persistent data storage across platforms like PowerStore and PowerScale, supporting dynamic provisioning, replication for disaster recovery, and observability through Prometheus and Grafana.
The rapid expansion of the k0rdent catalog to 92 integrations signals strong ecosystem growth and addresses a clear market need for composable, manageable infrastructure. For organizations scaling cloud-native and AI initiatives, this evolving toolkit reduces time-to-production and operational overhead by providing validated, production-ready paths for integrating essential technologies. The focus on declarative automation and centralized policy helps standardize deployments while maintaining the flexibility to choose best-of-breed solutions across the hybrid cloud landscape.
Mirantis delivers the fastest path to enterprise AI at scale, with full-stack AI infrastructure technology that removes GPU infrastructure complexity and streamlines operations across the AI lifecycle, from Metal-to-Model. Today, all infrastructure is AI infrastructure, and Mirantis provides the end-to-end automation, enterprise security and governance, and deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration that organizations need to reduce time to market and efficiently scale cloud native, virtualized, and GPU-powered applications across any environment – on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or edge.
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