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ZEDEDA announced ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service, a fully managed Kubernetes service for the distributed edge.

The new service includes a Kubernetes runtime that is curated, managed and supported by ZEDEDA, as well as integrations with industry-leading orchestrators.

ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service is a fully managed service that simplifies Kubernetes deployments at the edge, allowing customers to focus on their applications instead of managing and maintaining the underlying infrastructure. The new service eliminates the struggles typically associated with Kubernetes deployments at the edge, such as highly remote or distributed locations, constrained devices, unreliable security, lack of skilled IT personnel in the field and undependable network connectivity. ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service enables organizations to deploy and run Kubernetes infrastructure at the distributed edge remotely, securely and cost-efficiently.

“Our customers are industry leaders who are pushing the boundaries of innovation at the distributed edge, and working with them, we realized the need for an edge service that would remove the obstacles of deploying Kubernetes in these environments,” said Said Ouissal, ZEDEDA’s CEO and founder. “ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service is a first-of-its-kind fully managed edge solution that enables our customers to use any Kubernetes tools that fit their needs and provides a clear path to modernize edge infrastructure while leveraging existing IT investments.”

“Our Enterprise Strategy Group research shows modernization, including containerization, at the edge is where organizations want to leverage their existing investments and often run into challenges,” said Paul Nashawaty, Principal Analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. “In fact, we see 64% of organizations deploy 26% or more of modern applications at the edge locations. ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service addresses an existing gap between these environments and Kubernetes tools, enabling customers to focus on their workloads instead of how they will run them.”

ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service, built on ZEDEDA’s edge orchestration technology provides full lifecycle-managed Kubernetes through ZEDEDA, including a runtime curated, managed and supported by ZEDEDA. ZEDEDA Edge Kubernetes Service reduces the cost of managing and orchestrating distributed edge infrastructure and applications while increasing visibility, security and control. The new service integrates with and supports industry-leading orchestrators, including Avassa, Rafay, Red Hat OpenShift, SUSE Rancher and VMware Tanzu.