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STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) provides managed CNCF-compliant Kubernetes clusters.

Service Overview

Section titled “Service Overview”
  • Fully Managed Control Plane: Free high-availability control plane backed by 99.9% API availability SLA.
  • Automated Lifecycle: Auto-detects and repairs unhealthy worker nodes; handles OS and K8s patch upgrades.
  • Cost Savings: Scheduled auto-hibernation shuts down dev/test node pools during off-peak hours.

Technical Details

Section titled “Technical Details”
  • Images: Flatcar container-optimized and Ubuntu (preview) worker OS images.
  • CNI Networks: Selectable Calico or Cilium container network interfaces.

Service Level

Section titled “Service Level”

The values below come from the STACKIT documentation and update themselves.

From the STACKIT docsIntroduction › Service Level Agreement (SLA)Source updated 19.08.2026 · copied 05.10.2026

The SKE SLA is measured according to following Service Level Indicator (SLI):

  • Availability of Kubernetes API Server of SKE clusters - SLA: 99,9%.
  • The SLA for an SKE cluster is violated, if the API server for the cluster can’t be externally accessed.

Excluded from SLA violations are:

  • Failures of Kubernetes Pods or Kubernetes nodes running in the cluster.
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Limitations & Constraints

Section titled “Limitations & Constraints”
  • Short-Lived Tokens: Kubeconfig authentication uses short-lived OIDC tokens requiring regular authentication renewal.
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