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Announcements, press releases and articles from Mamluk about the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.2.0 is released

BKE 2.2.0 moves the container runtime, Calico and Longhorn, and turns on Longhorn's own network policies. The container runtime gains a directory for local settings that no upgrade...

29 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Article · Enterprise architecture

The remarkable simplicity of Mamluk's enterprise offering

Mamluk's enterprise offering is five layers: Debian, the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, the Bahriya Tersane charts, the Kipchak framework, and Bahriya Cloud, which runs on the other four. Each...

26 Oct 2026 · 16 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.1.1 is released

BKE 2.1.1 corrects the configuration BKE applies to Kong, cert-manager and Netdata. No software version moves and no node drains, so clusters on 2.1.0 upgrade with a single...

26 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Press Release · Tersane

Mamluk launches Bahriya Tersane, its production Helm charts, as a product in its own right

Mamluk today launched Bahriya Tersane, a catalogue of the production Helm charts that run bahriya.cloud, licensed per organisation for installation on the customer's own premises. Formerly the Mamluk...

25 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.1.0 is released

BKE 2.1.0 brings every bundled component to its latest release compatible with the Kubernetes minor BKE runs. Upgrades now check that the new software accepts your configuration before...

25 Oct 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · BKE

The Passage Plan: every BKE upgrade, laid out before it runs

Before the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine changes a component's configuration, it reports what would change and stops. The Passage Plan shows that report in the Mamluk console, in full...

21 Oct 2026 · 5 min

Article · BKE

Kubernetes built from parts: what a composable distribution gives the enterprise

Most Kubernetes distributions are sold as a finished platform, and the organisation that buys one inherits every decision inside it. BKE is a fixed base and a set...

20 Oct 2026 · 11 min

Article · BKE

What three clusters cost a bank: BKE and OpenShift compared

A bank in Saudi Arabia running production, staging and performance testing on 320 worker cores pays for OpenShift by the core. The same estate on BKE, with Bahriya...

6 Oct 2026 · 9 min

Announcement · BKE

BKE has its own home: bke.bahriya.cloud

The Bahriya Kubernetes Engine now has a dedicated site, and its installation and operation documentation is public — the same pages our customers operate from, readable before you...

1 Oct 2026 · 2 min

Announcement · BKE

The Mamluk Console opens with self-service BKE trials

console.maml.uk is open to everyone: licences for BKE and Kipchak Enterprise, versioned documentation and ticketed support in one place — and a 14-day BKE trial you issue yourself,...

22 Sep 2026 · 3 min

Announcement · BKE

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.0.0 is released

BKE 2.0.0 moves the Kubernetes minor and, by design, nothing else. It also brings cluster login through your own identity provider and configuration you own, with upgrades that...

22 Sep 2026 · 3 min

Press Release · BKE

Mamluk launches managed on-premise Kubernetes for the GCC

UAE-based Mamluk LLC today announced a fully managed on-premise Kubernetes offering, run by GCC-resident engineers on the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, for organisations that cannot send their data offshore....

20 Mar 2026 · 2 min