SKS - A Continuous Development of our Kubernetes Service

Six months ago, we introduced our Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) on the Exoscale platform. Since the first day SKS has evolved further, and we are continuously working on improving the service and adding more features to it. We are today proud of announcing the official certification by the CNCF within the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. Read all about SKS, the latest developments and the roadmap for the next months.
Open Ecosystem SKS
The Exoscale Scalable Kubernetes Service (SKS) provides a managed container orchestration with full container lifecycle management, where SKS is built as an open ecosystem staying as close as possible to upstream Kubernetes project. With our approach we enable customers to bring their own CI/CD strategy and avoid lock-in to a specific vendor. By building our own Managed Kubernetes we remained true to our values: Simplicity, Scalability, Security.
SKS Official Certification
A major achievement has been the certification by the CNCF within the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program in July. This certification guarantees total reversibility of data and ensures that our service supports the required APIs. Organizations and companies are therefore flexible in their providers’ choice and can set up multi or hybrid cloud environments easily.
SKS Evolution over the last Months
It all started in February 2021, when we released a preview version of our Kubernetes service with limited availability but full features. Already about a month later at the end of March 2021 we announced General Availability of the service, meaning that SLAs were fully enforced from this day and the web portal integration has been published. This step has been important in allowing customers to receive full support and relying on known service levels.
SKS Feature Improvements
Not only are we keeping our service up to date to the latest versions, but we are also improving on the offered features and continuously adding more. Minor version upgrades on SKS are now on autopilot, you just need to set a flag on your cluster to get the automated upgrades to the control plane.
Roadmap for the next Months
Within the next weeks and months, we will continue to work on our Kubernetes service to further improve it.
- SKS support for GPUs
- Enabling of Single-Sign-On (SSO)
- Block Storage support for nodepools with Linstor CSI
- Kubernetes cluster autoscaler
The roadmap is steadily enhanced. We will share every new development on our channels, to keep you updated. Just follow us on our social media accounts (Twitter and LinkedIn), follow the changelog on our website or subscribe to our newsletter within the portal.