How TINEXT Cloud Built Swiss Sovereign Kubernetes, with No Control Plane Tax, for 350 Customers
Deployed on VMware vSphere and vCloud Director with Clastix Kamaji
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REDUCE THE COST OF RUNNING KUBERNETES AT SCALE
- Company
- TINEXT CLOUD
- Website
- cloud.tinext.com
- Headquarters
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Industry
- IT Services / Cloud Computing/ Managed IT Services
- Employees
- 11–50
- IT environment
- Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud ecosystems based on VMware and Microsoft Azure
- Clastix offering
- Kamaji
- Use case
- Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS)
AT A GLANCE
Challenge
Automating worker node provisioning on VMware vCloud, which doesn't support Cluster API, while meeting strict Swiss data sovereignty and tenant isolation requirements.
Solution
TINEXT Cloud built a managed Kubernetes-as-a-Service platform on two Kamaji management clusters, with a custom Terraform automation framework to work around vCloud's limitations.
Outcome
A fully managed KaaS platform live in approximately four months, serving 350 customers with no control plane tax and full Swiss data sovereignty.
SUMMARY
Success story overview
TINEXT Cloud, a Swiss cloud and managed services provider, needed to launch a Kubernetes-as-a-Service offering without adding operational overhead for its 14-person team — while keeping every workload under Swiss jurisdiction. Partnering with Clastix, TINEXT Cloud built its KaaS platform on two Kamaji management clusters running on VMware vSphere, with a custom Terraform-based automation framework to overcome vCloud's lack of Cluster API support. The result: a fully managed platform live in approximately four months, serving 350 customers with dedicated tenant control planes, no "control plane tax," full Swiss data sovereignty, and new clusters deployed in minutes.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Customer data must remain under Swiss jurisdiction, with full compliance and data sovereignty
- Fully isolated tenant environments with dedicated Kubernetes control planes
- A scalable platform operable by a lean engineering team without added operational complexity
- A flexible vendor able to collaborate closely and tailor the solution to their specific cloud provider use case
KEY OUTCOMES
- Launched a fully managed KaaS platform in approximately four months, with no prior Kubernetes offering and a team of 14
- Eliminated the "control plane tax" by running all tenant control planes through Kamaji's multi-tenant architecture, keeping costs lean for TINEXT Cloud and its customers
- Full Swiss data sovereignty all workloads hosted exclusively in Swiss data centres, under Swiss law, with hard tenant isolation built in from day one
- Automation-first from the start all customer and platform configurations versioned in GitLab via Infrastructure as Code, enabling new clusters to be deployed in minutes
“Kamaji enabled us to build a scalable and highly automated Kubernetes-as-a-Service platform. The combination of a multi-tenant architecture and direct access to Clastix's engineering team allowed us to tailor the solution to our needs and accelerate service delivery for our customers."
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