About Mirantis
Mirantis is a vendor of Kubernetes and container platform software and services. Its best-known product is Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, while its current homepage centers on k0rdent AI, a platform for provisioning multi-tenant, AI-ready infrastructure and managing clusters across clouds, on-premises sites, hybrid setups and the edge.
Solutions are grouped under infrastructure as a service, GPU platform as a service and AI platform as a service. They cover multi-cluster and hybrid multicloud management, workload migration, virtualization and private clouds, GPU provisioning and partitioning, sovereign and government AI factories, and turnkey training and inference with self-service portals, an inference mesh and a model registry. Services include app modernization and enterprise support.
Mirantis is a commercial vendor with partners, training and a public sector program. Pricing is not stated on the homepage, so cost details need to be obtained from the vendor.
Key features
- Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
- k0rdent AI multi-cluster management
- GPU provisioning and partitioning
- Turnkey training and inference platforms
- Self-service portals and model registry
- Hybrid multicloud and edge support
Good fit for
- →Building private or sovereign AI clouds
- →Managing Kubernetes clusters across clouds
- →Migrating workloads between platforms
- Tags
- kubernetes
- containers
- ai-infrastructure
- hybrid-cloud
- gpu
- private-cloud
- multi-cluster
Mirantis: questions and answers
- What is Mirantis used for?
- Mirantis sells Kubernetes and container platform software, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and k0rdent AI for managing AI clusters anywhere. It is a good fit for building private or sovereign AI clouds, managing Kubernetes clusters across clouds and migrating workloads between platforms.
- How much does Mirantis cost?
- Mirantis doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
- Is Mirantis open source?
- No. Mirantis is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Mirantis include Kubernetes, K3s and Rancher.
- Can I self-host Mirantis?
- Yes. Although Mirantis is closed source, it can be self-hosted on your own servers.
- What are some alternatives to Mirantis?
- Mirantis competes with Red Hat OpenShift, Platform9 and Spectro Cloud. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Mirantis alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Mirantis
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Kubernetes
Infrastructure & Containers
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Apache-2.0vs Amazon EKS★ 128k
K3s
Infrastructure & Containers
Lightweight Kubernetes
Apache-2.0vs Amazon EKS★ 34k
Rancher
Infrastructure & Containers
Complete container management platform
Apache-2.0vs Amazon EKS★ 26k
Talos Linux
Infrastructure & Containers
Talos Linux is a modern Linux distribution built for Kubernetes.
MPL-2.0vs Amazon EKS★ 11k
MicroK8s
Infrastructure & Containers
MicroK8s is a small, fast, single-package Kubernetes for datacenters and the edge.
Apache-2.0vs Amazon EKS★ 9.4k
KubeStellar
Infrastructure & Containers
KubeStellar - a flexible solution for multi-cluster configuration management for edge, mul
Apache-2.0vs Azure Arc★ 715
SaaS alternatives to Mirantis
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Red Hat OpenShift
Infrastructure & Containers
Enterprise Kubernetes application platform from Red Hat for hybrid and multi-cloud
SaaS
Platform9
Infrastructure & Containers
Managed Kubernetes and private cloud platform for hybrid environments
SaaS
Spectro Cloud
Infrastructure & Containers
Kubernetes management platform for clusters across data center, cloud and edge
SaaS
Rafay
Infrastructure & Containers
Kubernetes operations and platform-as-a-service for managing clusters at scale
SaaS
Nutanix
Infrastructure & Containers
Hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid multicloud platform
SaaS
VMware vSphere
Infrastructure & Containers
Server virtualization platform for managing virtual machines and clusters
SaaS

