Keep the self-service experience your teams like about Nutanix Cloud Platform and Prism, on an open foundation you own: managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and VMs on OpenStack, with multi-tenancy, quotas and a subscription per managed resource instead of per node.
Teams look for a Nutanix alternative for two reasons that have nothing to do with the technology working: the licence follows your nodes, so growth and hardware refreshes reprice the platform, and the stack is a vendor’s world end to end, from the hypervisor to the management plane. edgeContinuum takes the opposite shape. The foundation is OpenStack, open and widely deployed, running on hardware you choose, and the platform on top delivers the part your users actually touch: a console, an API and a Terraform provider that hand out managed Kubernetes, managed PostgreSQL and VMs inside quotas you define.
Most shortlists of Nutanix Cloud Platform alternatives compare hyperconverged products to each other: another appliance, another licence that counts nodes. The comparison below is deliberately different, because the question that decides these evaluations is usually not which hypervisor is better but how much of the stack one vendor owns, and what your exit looks like if the pricing model changes again.
The reason Prism gets defended internally is that people can serve themselves. edgeContinuum keeps that and widens it: a project-scoped console where a team picks a region, a control plane model and node pools and gets a kubeconfig, or provisions a database or a VM with networks and firewall rules, all inside the quota its organization was given.
An open foundation is not an ideology here, it is an exit option. OpenStack and CNCF-conformant Kubernetes mean the layers underneath your workloads are standard, so your Kubernetes clusters, manifests, images and automation stay portable, and the platform runs equally on the hardware you already bought and on the next generation you choose.
Conformant Kubernetes and standard OpenStack interfaces.
Organizations, projects, roles, quotas, usage per tenant.
Data centers, private clouds and edge sites in one platform.
Your perimeter, air-gap capable, supported from the EU.
Book a call and we’ll map your Nutanix estate onto the ladder above, or request a free trial and provision a managed cluster on your own infrastructure.
