Mirantis recently announced Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) 4, the latest evolution in its long-established product line that sets the standard for secure enterprise Kubernetes. MKE powers some of the world’s largest, highest-performance, and most secure clusters – hosting mission-critical workloads in every industry. More than 300,000 nodes of MKE have been deployed in production.

MKE 4’s 100% open source architecture is based on k0s – a flexible and scalable CNCF-certified Kubernetes. Like its predecessors, MKE 4 delivers ‘enterprise ready’ Kubernetes that is high-performance, highly-secure (with FIPS 140-2 encryption) and easy to operate, with a convenient web UI (user interface).

The new MKE 4 provides flexibility for platform engineers – designed to precisely meet requirements of virtually any use-case with Mirantis-validated open source ‘composable’ components from the CNCF ecosystem. MKE 4 uses declarative lifecycle-management that is highly automated – with platform configurations that are continuously monitored and can be corrected by Kubernetes operators to prevent configuration drift.

Plus, installation of MKE Virtualization (KubeVirt) enables virtual machine (VM) workloads to run in tandem with those on containers.

“We believe that Kubernetes is the core platform for all technology infrastructure and have designed MKE 4 to provide users with the flexibility to compose the best platform for their needs,” said Shaun O’Meara, chief technology officer, Mirantis. “This agile approach to delivering Kubernetes clusters removes technical lock-in and supports a convergence of containers and virtual machines into a single platform.”

For existing MKE users, upgrading to MKE 4 requires just one command or a single click. Users of MKE 3.7 can easily transition while keeping all workloads running. For Swarm users, Mirantis will continue support in MKE 3.

MKE 4 is scheduled to become available November 20 with packaged options for 24/7 enterprise support.