We run the platform.You run your workloads.

A clear operating boundary helps you decide whether Kupe is right for your team, and what you need to prepare before deploying.

Try the alpha What alpha means

Kupe maintains the platform foundation and included services. Your team owns application behaviour, configuration, security and workload data recovery.

Who looks after what?

Kupe operates

The Kubernetes foundation and included platform services, including GitOps, central observability and platform guardrails.

Your team operates

Application images and dependencies, workload manifests, secrets usage, resource settings, health checks and application-level incident response.

Your data, your recovery

Workload data and persistent volumes are not backed up by Kupe. You decide what to back up, run the backups and test that restores work.

Platform state and application data are different

Kupe manages account, tenant and cluster configuration as platform state. Rebuilding a cluster definition does not restore the data inside a persistent volume. Keep deployment definitions in Git and maintain a separate data recovery plan.

Security is shared work

Platform policies and security signals provide a baseline. Your team still needs to configure applications safely, manage access and secrets, patch application dependencies and act on relevant findings.

Understand alpha availability

There is no SLA or uptime guarantee during alpha. Standard alpha clusters have one control-plane replica; HA is opt-in. Support is best effort, mostly during UK business hours. The Alpha Notice defines the current service terms.

For the current service commitments, read the Alpha Notice. For technical boundaries, see the platform architecture.

Keep exploring

Kubernetes, assembled.

Your own Kubernetes API, familiar deployment tools, and a connected stack for GitOps, observability and security. Kupe keeps the platform running.

Common questions

Practical answers before you begin.

Compare your options

VPS, developer platforms and Kubernetes.

Find your starting point

Bring a workload. See how it fits.

Try a non-critical environment, explore the platform and tell us what you need next.

Talk to the Kupe team Read the docs

Kupe is in alpha. No SLA. Your team owns workload backups. Read the Alpha Notice.