Accelerate the Adoption of Secure Enterprise Kubernetes Environments

Adopting Kubernetes at scale can be transformative for organizations by enabling them to modernize their infrastructure, drive innovation, and maintain tight cost controls. However, this transformation comes with its own set of challenges. Technology executives often face complex migrations, inconsistent security, and unpredictable costs.

Current market solutions force enterprises to choose between the flexibility of do-it-yourself Kubernetes deployments and the simplicity of fully managed services that lack customization.

Akamai’s Linode Kubernetes Engine–Enterprise (LKE-E) is designed to address these issues, offering a production-grade platform that’s engineered for the unpredictable demands of enterprise organizations.

LKE-E combines enterprise-grade security, dedicated resources, and enhanced observability with the customizability of infrastructure as a service (IaaS). It delivers a solution that meets the growing demand for secure, scalable Kubernetes environments without sacrificing control or performance.

LKE-E is tailored to organizations with:

• High-traffic web applications and APIs that require consistent performance at scale
• Data-intensive applications that benefit from low egress fees
• Multiregion deployments that need consistent management across geographies
• Applications with strict security requirements that demand advanced network isolation and controls

For tech executives, LKE-E solves critical problems such as reliability, performance, security, and compliance, while also providing streamlined adoption, operational simplicity, and cost efficiency at scale.

LKE-E provides dedicated control planes and ingress resources that ensure customers’ applications perform consistently, even as they scale to 500+ nodes. This dedicated infrastructure means mission-critical applications won’t suffer from the resource contention issues that plague shared environments.

With an improved 99.95% service-level agreement (SLA) for worker clusters and 99.9% for control planes, these integrated control planes autoscale for seamless growth from 3 to 1,000 worker nodes without manual intervention. In return, enterprises gain the reliability and scalability they need.

Security is built into the foundation of LKE-E, giving security teams the tools to protect sensitive workloads and meet compliance requirements with comprehensive firewall support by traffic type: Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block or individual ports, virtual private cloud (VPC) support, and identity and access management (IAM) integration with third-party providers.

Perhaps most important, LKE-E maintains low egress fees, offering a significantly more cost-effective solution than other enterprise-grade managed Kubernetes providers who typically charge premium rates for data transfer. This predictable pricing means our customers can scale confidently without fear of unexpected costs.

LKE-E stands out with its robust scalability, advanced security features, and transparent pricing model. It supports 500+ worker nodes per cluster and more than 5,000 pods, empowering organizations to handle peak workloads and future initiatives without performance trade-offs.

The platform's architecture directly addresses the reliability and compliance needs of industries like finance, logistics, and manufacturing with:

• Enterprise-grade scalability and reliability
• Improved security postures
• Predictable performance, uptime, and costs

LKE-E's architecture is designed to support seamless scaling and real-time access to business data for large, complex organizations. This means that businesses can handle sudden spikes in traffic or data processing demands without compromising performance.

For instance, a leading streaming analytics organization recently migrated from a hyperscaler to LKE-E coupled with an enterprise-grade load balancer. The results were remarkable: Their load balancer’s capacity surged from handling 25 million to 30 million requests per hour to effortlessly managing up to 35 million requests per hour, representing a substantial 30% to 40% increase in request bandwidth.

These results highlight the platform's ability to handle demanding workloads. Further testing showed that the platform could have handled 50 million requests per hour, highlighting the tremendous capacity and throughput available to enterprises. This upgrade not only enhanced the organization’s operational efficiency but also underscored the scalability and reliability of LKE-E in meeting demanding workload requirements.

Enterprise organizations have a multitude of applications, many of which have strict security requirements that require advanced network isolation and controls to defend against persistent threats.

LKE-E’s built-in VPC isolation, IAM support, and automated firewall management provide robust protection for enterprise environments. This is particularly important for organizations that operate under strict regulatory frameworks, as it helps them maintain compliance and protect sensitive data.

The LKE-E platform delivers consistent performance, premium networking, and high availability, with a transparent pricing model that eliminates guesswork. This allows businesses to budget accurately and focus on their core operations without worrying about unexpected costs or performance issues.

To help enterprises overcome the challenges associated with Kubernetes adoption, Akamai has partnered with Maxima Consulting, a seasoned expert in Kubernetes adoption and management. 

Maxima Consulting brings extensive experience in helping organizations navigate the complexities of Kubernetes with an expert team that works closely with businesses to understand their unique needs and develop tailored strategies for successful Kubernetes adoption.

Maxima Consulting's approach includes:

• Strategic migration planning: Comprehensive assessment and tailored roadmaps promote operational continuity and mitigate disruption.
• Security from day one: Security is integrated into every stage of migration and operations, hardening environments from the start.
• Continuous optimization and SRE excellence: Proven site reliability engineering (SRE) practices deliver proactive monitoring, automated scaling, and regular updates, which minimize operational overhead.

By partnering with Maxima Consulting and leveraging LKE-E, enterprise organizations can accelerate their Kubernetes journey, modernize their infrastructure, drive innovation, and maintain tight cost controls. The combination of LKE-E's robust platform and Maxima Consulting's expertise offers a seamless pathway to secure, scalable Kubernetes environments.

With Linode Kubernetes Engine–Enterprise and Maxima Consulting, businesses can overcome the challenges associated with Kubernetes adoption and unlock the full potential of their infrastructure.

Whether you're looking to enhance your security posture, improve performance, or reduce costs, this powerful combination provides the tools and expertise needed to succeed.