Azure · AKS · Enterprise

Enterprise AKS
Orchestration

AKS Manager delivers a complete, revision-controlled, production-grade AKS cluster — not just the cluster itself — with internal DNS, TLS, ingress, monitoring, and deployment tooling pre-integrated and kept consistent across all dev, QA, integration, UAT, and production environments via GitOps.

AKS DNS Entra KMS Vault ArgoCD Traefik
Beyond az aks create

Native Azure tools provision a cluster. AKS Manager provisions a platform — declarative, reproducible, and identical from your laptop to production.

az aks create

Stops at the cluster boundary

Azure CLI and the portal create the AKS control plane and node pools — then leave you to manually configure DNS, TLS, ingress, and monitoring. Every engineer assembles it differently every time.

Terraform / Bicep

Infrastructure only, not the platform

These tools provision Azure resources but are not opinionated about what runs inside the cluster. You still need to separately manage ArgoCD apps, cert lifecycles, and ingress config — and keep them in sync across all environments.

Helm / Raw Manifests

No environment consistency guarantee

Without GitOps as the source of truth, dev, QA, UAT, and production clusters drift apart. A fix applied manually in prod is never reflected in dev. AKS Manager uses ArgoCD to make every environment a declared, auditable, reproducible state.

Azure Landing Zone Accelerator

Network and governance, not the workload platform

Microsoft's accelerator handles hub-spoke networking and policy. It does not touch ingress, internal TLS, GitOps delivery, or observability inside your clusters. AKS Manager picks up exactly where it leaves off.

Least Privileged Access

AKS Manager is a least-privilege access agent — powerful enough to safely provision clusters, node pools, and vault secrets, yet scoped to eliminate the most dangerous Azure Owner permissions.

Security Pillar
Azure: Full Owner
Azure: Guardrailed (Cont. + UAA)
Role Assignment
Can grant "Owner" to anyone, anywhere.
Scoped: Can only assign specific roles via ABAC.
Security Integrity
Can disable Defender or delete Activity Logs.
Policy-Restricted: Cannot modify core security initiatives.
Persistence Risk
High: Can add new "Co-Administrators" easily.
Low: Limited to the Managed Identity session.
Data Safety
Can delete any Resource Group or Vault.
Role-Scoped: Cannot change Key Vault access policies.
Financial Risk
Can delete the entire subscription.
Limited: Cannot manage billing or subscriptions.
Orchestration Features

Workload Identity

Native Azure Entra ID federation. Eliminate static secrets by providing pods with short-lived tokens.

etcd Encryption

Native KMS v2 orchestration. Encrypt etcd at rest with hardware-backed security.

Node Pool Management

Full lifecycle orchestration including automated Taints and Tolerations for isolation.

Secrets Management Lifecycle

Secrets versioned in vault, encrypted in etcd, with a GUI to dynamically create and update mappings.

Automated & Maintained

Every component upgraded trimesterly — no manual patching, no version drift.

GitOps

ArgoCD & Workflows

The core of our GitOps delivery and DAG batch processing, upgraded every trimester.

Ingress / DNS

Traefik & ExternalDNS

Automated lifecycle for ingress, TLS, and DNS automation refreshed trimesterly.

Observability

Headlamp & ECK

Modern Kubernetes UI and full-stack observability updated to latest releases.

Managed Lifecycle

Every AKS cluster and stack component upgraded trimesterly via Azure Marketplace — with a support tier to match your team's needs.

Azure Marketplace

Marketplace Lifecycle

Full stack and AKS cluster upgrades at the press of a button every trimester — ingress, observability, secrets, and GitOps tooling all in sync.

Azure Marketplace
Public Offering

Community Support

Best-efforts support via email. Ideal for teams evaluating the platform or running non-critical workloads.

Email support
Best-efforts response
No SLA guarantee
Enterprise

Production Support

Business hours support (Mon–Fri, CET) for teams running production workloads on AKS Manager.

P1 response:  4 hours
P2 response:  1 business day
Mon–Fri, 09:00–18:00 CET
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