April 15, 2025
Cloud & MSP
C41: A Managed Kubernetes Service From the Heart of Europe
A fully managed, CNCF-certified Kubernetes service for reliable and secure operations in Switzerland and across Europe.
REDUCE THE COST OF RUNNING KUBERNETES AT SCALE
- Company
- C41
- Website
- c41.ch
- Headquarters
- Switzerland
- Industry
- Cloud & Managed Services
- IT environment
- C41 Cloud, in its own Swiss data centre
- Clastix offering
- Kamaji
- Use case
- Fully Managed Kubernetes Service
AT A GLANCE
Challenge
C41's customers wanted Kubernetes as a service, without taking on the complexity of running control planes themselves.
Solution
A hyperscaler-style Managed Kubernetes Service built on Kamaji and integrated into the C41 Cloud ecosystem.
Outcome
CNCF-certified, GitOps-ready Kubernetes with a highly available control plane and autoscaling nodes, fully operated by C41.
SUMMARY
Success story overview
C41 is a Swiss managed service provider with more than 30 years of accumulated experience, offering cloud solutions, engineering expertise and a state-of-the-art data centre to customers in Switzerland and neighbouring countries. Kubernetes has become essential to its customers' efficiency and competitiveness — but it is a complex tool, and most of those customers would rather concentrate on their applications than on the infrastructure underneath them.
Clastix built C41 a Managed Kubernetes Service on Kamaji, its open-source tool for creating, managing and operating self-service Kubernetes with a fraction of the usual operational burden, fully integrated into the C41 Cloud ecosystem. C41 deploys, hosts and manages every component required for Kubernetes to run, including updates and security patches.
Clusters scale automatically to match workloads and down to zero when idle, the control plane is highly available and fully managed, every cluster-level function and configuration is declarative and GitOps-ready, and each cluster is 100% standard Kubernetes, certified by the CNCF.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Kubernetes consumed as a service, so teams focus on applications rather than infrastructure
- A fully managed control plane, including updates and security patches
- Nodes that autoscale to match workloads, down to zero when idle
- Declarative, GitOps-ready cluster configuration
- 100% standard Kubernetes, certified by the CNCF
KEY OUTCOMES
- A Managed Kubernetes Service fully integrated into the C41 Cloud ecosystem
- A highly available, fully managed control plane behind every workload
- Nodes scaled up and down automatically, and to zero when the cluster is idle
- Cluster-level functionality declarative and GitOps-ready
- CNCF-certified Kubernetes for security, stability and robustness
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