Journal

Kubernetes.

Announcements, press releases and articles from Mamluk about Kubernetes, its distributions and running it in production.

Press Release · Tersane

Mamluk releases the Compliance and Assurance Convoy for Bahriya Tersane, beginning with NCA ECC

Mamluk today released the Compliance and Assurance Convoy for Bahriya Tersane: it maps a regulator's technical controls onto a Kubernetes cluster, enforces and checks them, and keeps dated...

6 Nov 2026 · 4 min

Article · Tersane

Compliance evidence from the cluster itself: NCA ECC on Kubernetes

How the Compliance and Assurance Convoy turns a Kubernetes cluster into the source of its own regulatory evidence: admission policies in two layers, the cluster's scanners, platform facts,...

6 Nov 2026 · 8 min

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

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

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

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

Article · Kubernetes

DCCAPTN - a CAP theorem adapted for distributed containers

CAP theorem to the reality of distributed container ecosystems: Consistency, Availability, Performance, and Tolerance of Network Failures as four dials wired to each other, not a menu you...

3 Jul 2026 · 9 min

Article · Kubernetes

Why sovereign Kubernetes matters more than a cloud region

A new availability zone with a local flag on it is not sovereignty. Real control means owning the distribution, the operators and the people who get paged at...

15 May 2026 · 2 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