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What is Cluster Management Software?
Cluster management software is specialized software designed to manage and orchestrate groups of interconnected computers, known as clusters, that work together to perform complex tasks. It provides a centralized interface for deploying, monitoring, scaling, and maintaining applications and workloads across multiple nodes. The software ensures resource allocation, load balancing, and fault tolerance to maximize efficiency and reliability. It is commonly used in high-performance computing, data centers, and cloud environments to streamline operations and optimize infrastructure usage. By automating tasks and providing real-time insights, cluster management software enhances operational efficiency and simplifies the complexities of managing distributed systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Cluster Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Appvia Wayfinder
Appvia
Appvia Wayfinder is a trusted infrastructure operations platform designed to increase developer velocity. It enables platform teams to operate at scale by providing self-service guardrails for standardisation. Supporting integration with AWS, Azure, and more, Wayfinder offers self-service provisioning of environments and cloud resources using a catalogue of manageable Terraform modules. Its built-in principles of isolation and least privilege ensure secure default configurations, while granting fine-grained control to platform teams over underlying CRDs. It offers centralized control and visibility over clusters, apps, and cloud resources across various clouds. Additionally, Wayfinder's cloud automation capability supports safe deployments and upgrades through the use of ephemeral clusters and namespaces. Choose Appvia Wayfinder for streamlined, secure, and efficient infrastructure management.">
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K8Studio
K8Studio
Welcome to K8 Studio, your ultimate cross-platform client IDE for effortless Kubernetes cluster management. Seamlessly deploy to popular platforms such as EKS, GKE, AKS, or your dedicated bare metal setup. Experience the power of connecting to your cluster with an intuitive interface, providing a visual representation of nodes, pods, services, and more. Gain instant access to logs, detailed element descriptions, and a bash terminal, all with a simple click. Elevate your Kubernetes experience with K8Studio's user-friendly features. The grid view allows for a comprehensive tabular display of all Kubernetes objects. The left bar enables the selection of specific object types, and this view is entirely interactive and updated in real time. Users can seamlessly search and filter objects by namespace, and rearrange columns. Organizes workloads, services, ingresses, and volumes by namespace and instance. Visualize object connections for a rapid pod count and status check.Starting Price: $17 per month -
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Slurm
IBM
Slurm Workload Manager, formerly known as Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), is a free, open-source job scheduler and cluster management system for Linux and Unix-like kernels. It's designed to manage compute jobs on high performance computing (HPC) clusters and high throughput computing (HTC) environments, and is used by many of the world's supercomputers and computer clusters.Starting Price: Free -
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Komodor
Komodor
Komodor takes the complexity out of K8s troubleshooting, providing all of the tools you need to troubleshoot with confidence. Komodor monitors your entire k8s stack, identifies issues, uncovers their root cause and delivers the context you need to troubleshoot efficiently and independently. Auto-identify k8s anomalies, failed deploys, misconfigurations, bottlenecks and other health issues. Spot emerging problems before they spread out and affect the end-users. Use ready-made playbooks to streamline root cause analysis, sidestep disruptive escalations and save hours of precious dev time. Provide your teams with straightforward remediation instructions that turn every responder into a troubleshooting expert.Starting Price: $10 per node per month -
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Azure Batch
Microsoft
Batch runs the applications that you use on workstations and clusters. It’s easy to cloud-enable your executable files and scripts to scale out. Batch provides a queue to receive the work that you want to run and executes your applications. Describe the data that need to be moved to the cloud for processing, how the data should be distributed, what parameters to use for each task, and the command to start the process. Think about it like an assembly line with multiple applications. With Batch, you can share data between steps and manage the execution as a whole. Batch processes jobs on demand, not on a predefined schedule, so your customers run jobs in the cloud when they need to. Manage who can access Batch and how many resources they can use, and ensure that requirements such as encryption are met. Rich monitoring helps you to know what’s going on and identify problems.Starting Price: $3.1390 per month -
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Windows Admin Center
Microsoft
Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based management toolset that enables IT administrators to manage Windows Servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure, and Windows 10 or later PCs without the need for cloud connectivity. It serves as the modern evolution of traditional in-box management tools like Server Manager and Microsoft Management Console (MMC), offering a streamlined and integrated experience. Provides a unified interface to manage multiple server environments, including physical, virtual, on-premises, and cloud-based servers, facilitating tasks such as configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Seamlessly extends on-premises deployments to Azure, enabling hybrid management scenarios. This integration allows for the utilization of Azure services like backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and update management directly through the Windows Admin Center interface.Starting Price: $1,176 one-time payment -
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Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
Microsoft
Easily handle multicluster scenarios for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters such as workload propagation, north-south load balancing (for traffic flowing into member clusters), and upgrade orchestration across multiple clusters. Fleet cluster enables centralized management of all your clusters at scale. The managed hub cluster takes care of the upgrades and Kubernetes cluster configuration for you. Kubernetes configuration propagation lets you use policies and overrides to disseminate objects across fleet member clusters. North-south load balancer orchestrates traffic flow across workloads deployed in multiple member clusters of the fleet. Group any combination of your Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters to simplify multi-cluster workflows like Kubernetes configuration propagation and multi-cluster networking. Fleet requires a hub Kubernetes cluster to store configurations for placement policy and multicluster networking.Starting Price: $0.10 per cluster per hour -
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OpenSVC
OpenSVC
OpenSVC is an open source software solution designed to enhance IT productivity by providing tools for service mobility, clustering, container orchestration, configuration management, and comprehensive infrastructure auditing. The platform comprises two main components. The agent functions as a supervisor, clusterware, container orchestrator, and configuration manager, facilitating the deployment, management, and scaling of services across diverse environments, including on-premises, virtual machines, and cloud instances. It supports various operating systems such as Unix, Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows, and offers features like cluster DNS, backend networks, ingress gateways, and scalers. The collector aggregates data reported by agents and fetches information from the site's infrastructure, including networks, SANs, storage arrays, backup servers, and asset managers. It serves as a reliable, flexible, and secure data store.Starting Price: Free -
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Gloo Mesh
Solo.io
Today's Kubernetes environments need help in scaling, securing and observing modern cloud-native applications. Gloo Mesh, based on the industry's leading Istio service mesh, simplifies multi-cloud and multi-cluster management of service mesh for containers and virtual machines. Gloo Mesh helps platform engineering teams to reduce costs, reduce risks, and improve application agility. Gloo Mesh is a modular component of Gloo Platform. The service mesh allows for application-aware network tasks to be managed independently from the application, adding observability, security, and reliability to distributed applications. By introducing the service mesh to your applications, you can: Simplify the application layer Provide more insights into your traffic Increase the security of your application -
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Azure Red Hat OpenShift
Microsoft
Azure Red Hat OpenShift provides highly available, fully managed OpenShift clusters on demand, monitored and operated jointly by Microsoft and Red Hat. Kubernetes is at the core of Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShift brings added-value features to complement Kubernetes, making it a turnkey container platform as a service (PaaS) with a significantly improved developer and operator experience. Highly available, fully managed public and private clusters, automated operations, and over-the-air platform upgrades. Take advantage of the enhanced user interface for application topology and builds in the web console to build, deploy, configure, and visualize containerized applications and cluster resources more easily.Starting Price: $0.44 per hour -
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Azure HPC
Microsoft
Azure high-performance computing (HPC). Power breakthrough innovations, solve complex problems, and optimize your compute-intensive workloads. Build and run your most demanding workloads in the cloud with a full stack solution purpose-built for HPC. Deliver supercomputing power, interoperability, and near-infinite scalability for compute-intensive workloads with Azure Virtual Machines. Empower decision-making and deliver next-generation AI with industry-leading Azure AI and analytics services. Help secure your data and applications and streamline compliance with multilayered, built-in security and confidential computing. -
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SafeKit
Eviden
Evidian SafeKit is a high-availability software solution designed to ensure the redundancy of critical applications on Windows and Linux platforms. It provides an all-in-one approach by integrating load balancing, synchronous real-time file replication, automatic application failover, and automated failback after a server failure, all within a single software product. This eliminates the need for additional hardware components such as network load balancers or shared disks, as well as the necessity for enterprise editions of operating systems and databases. SafeKit's software clustering facilitates the creation of mirror clusters with real-time data replication and failover, farm clusters with load balancing and failover, and advanced architectures like farm+mirror clusters and active-active clusters. Its shared-nothing architecture simplifies deployment, even in remote sites, by avoiding the complexities associated with shared disk clusters. -
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Data Flow Manager
Ksolves
Data Flow Manager (DFM) is a purpose-built tool to deploy and promote Apache NiFi data flows within minutes – no need for NiFi UI and controller services, 100% on-premises with zero cloud dependency. Designed for organizations prioritizing data sovereignty, DFM eliminates vendor lock-in and cloud exposure. With a simple pay-per-node model, you can run unlimited NiFi data flows without paying for extra CPUs. DFM automates and accelerates deployment across environments with features like NiFi data flow deployment, scheduling, and promotion in just a few minutes. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), complete audit logging, and built-in performance analytics give teams control and visibility over their data operations. DFM’s AI-powered NiFi Data Flow Creation Assistant helps teams build better NiFi data flows, faster. Its structure and performance analysis tools ensure your NiFi flows are optimized from the start. Backed by 24x7 NiFi expert support and a 99.99% uptime guarantee, -
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Amazon EKS Anywhere
Amazon
Amazon EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables you to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises, including on your own virtual machines (VMs) and bare metal servers. EKS Anywhere provides an installable software package for creating and operating Kubernetes clusters on-premises and automation tooling for cluster lifecycle support. EKS Anywhere brings a consistent AWS management experience to your data center, building on the strengths of Amazon EKS Distro (the same Kubernetes that powers EKS on AWS.) EKS Anywhere saves you the complexity of buying or building your own management tooling to create EKS Distro clusters, configure the operating environment, update software, and handle backup and recovery. EKS Anywhere enables you to automate cluster management, reduce support costs, and eliminate the redundant effort of using multiple open source or 3rd party tools for operating Kubernetes clusters. EKS Anywhere is fully supported by AWS. -
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IBM PowerHA SystemMirror provides a comprehensive high availability (HA) solution that ensures near-continuous application uptime with advanced failure detection, failover, and recovery features. It offers a simplified, integrated configuration that addresses storage and HA needs while allowing users to manage their clusters through a single pane of glass. Available for IBM AIX and IBM i operating systems, PowerHA supports multisite disaster recovery configurations and automation to reduce administrative effort. It incorporates IBM SAN storage systems like DS8000 and Flash Systems into HA clusters for robust data protection. Licensed per processor core with maintenance included for the first year, PowerHA delivers economic value for on-premises deployments. The technology helps enterprises eliminate planned and unplanned outages while monitoring system health proactively.
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ManageEngine DDI Central is designed to streamline network management for enterprises, offering a unified platform for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM. DDI Central as an overlay, discovers and integrates data across both on-premises as well as remote DNS-DHCP clusters. Enterprises gain holistic visibility and control of their network infrastructure, including remote branch offices. With smart automation features, real-time analytics, and advanced security protocols, DDI Central enhances operational efficiency, visibility, and network security, all from a single console. Features: Flexible internal and external DNS and DHCP cluster management Streamlined DNS server and zone management Automated DHCP scope management Targeted IP configurations with DHCP fingerprinting Secure dynamic DNS (DDNS) management DNS aging and scavenging DNS security management Domain traffic surveillance IP lease history insights IP-DNS correlations and IP-MAC identity mapping Built-in failover & auditingStarting Price: $799/year
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Spectro Cloud Palette
Spectro Cloud
Spectro Cloud’s Palette is a comprehensive Kubernetes management platform designed to simplify and unify the deployment, operation, and scaling of Kubernetes clusters across diverse environments—from edge to cloud to data center. It provides full-stack, declarative orchestration, enabling users to blueprint cluster configurations with consistency and flexibility. The platform supports multi-cluster, multi-distro Kubernetes environments, delivering lifecycle management, granular access controls, cost visibility, and optimization. Palette integrates seamlessly with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and popular Kubernetes services such as EKS, OpenShift, and Rancher. With robust security features including FIPS and FedRAMP compliance, Palette addresses needs of government and regulated industries. It offers flexible deployment options—self-hosted, SaaS, or airgapped—ensuring organizations can choose the best fit for their infrastructure and security requirements. -
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Deploy and orchestrate applications on a managed Kubernetes platform with centralized, SaaS-based management of distributed applications with a single pane of glass and rich observability. Simplify by managing deployments as one across on-prem, cloud, and edge locations. Achieve effortless management and scaling of applications across multiple k8s clusters (customer sites or F5 Distributed Cloud Regional Edge) with a single Kubernetes compatible API, unlocking the ease of multi-cluster management. Deploy, deliver, and secure applications to all locations as one ”virtual” location. Deploy, secure, and operate distributed applications with uniform production grade Kubernetes no matter the location, from private and public cloud to edge locations. Secure K8s Gateway with zero trust security all the way to the cluster with ingress services with WAAP, service policies management, network, and application firewall.
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AWS ParallelCluster
Amazon
AWS ParallelCluster is an open-source cluster management tool that simplifies the deployment and management of High-Performance Computing (HPC) clusters on AWS. It automates the setup of required resources, including compute nodes, a shared filesystem, and a job scheduler, supporting multiple instance types and job submission queues. Users can interact with ParallelCluster through a graphical user interface, command-line interface, or API, enabling flexible cluster configuration and management. The tool integrates with job schedulers like AWS Batch and Slurm, facilitating seamless migration of existing HPC workloads to the cloud with minimal modifications. AWS ParallelCluster is available at no additional charge; users only pay for the AWS resources consumed by their applications. With AWS ParallelCluster, you can use a simple text file to model, provision, and dynamically scale the resources needed for your applications in an automated and secure manner. -
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IBM Spectrum LSF Suites is a workload management platform and job scheduler for distributed high-performance computing (HPC). Terraform-based automation to provision and configure resources for an IBM Spectrum LSF-based cluster on IBM Cloud is available. Increase user productivity and hardware use while reducing system management costs with our integrated solution for mission-critical HPC environments. The heterogeneous, highly scalable, and available architecture provides support for traditional high-performance computing and high-throughput workloads. It also works for big data, cognitive, GPU machine learning, and containerized workloads. With dynamic HPC cloud support, IBM Spectrum LSF Suites enables organizations to intelligently use cloud resources based on workload demand, with support for all major cloud providers. Take advantage of advanced workload management, with policy-driven scheduling, including GPU scheduling and dynamic hybrid cloud, to add capacity on demand.
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes controls clusters and applications from a single console, with built-in security policies. Extend the value of Red Hat OpenShift by deploying apps, managing multiple clusters, and enforcing policies across multiple clusters at scale. Red Hat’s solution ensures compliance, monitors usage and maintains consistency. Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is included with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, a complete set of powerful, optimized tools to secure, protect, and manage your apps. Run your operations from anywhere that Red Hat OpenShift runs, and manage any Kubernetes cluster in your fleet. Speed up application development pipelines with self-service provisioning. Deploy legacy and cloud-native applications quickly across distributed clusters. Free up IT departments with self-service cluster deployment that automatically delivers applications.
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OKD
OKD
In short, OKD is a very opinionated deployment of Kubernetes. Kubernetes is a collection of software and design patterns to operate applications at scale. We add some features directly as modifications into Kubernetes, but mostly we augment the platform by "preinstalling" a large amount of pieces of software called Operators into the deployed cluster. These operators then provide all of our cluster components (over 100 of them) that make up the platform, such as OS upgrades, web consoles, monitoring, and image-building. OKD is intended to be run at all scales from cloud to metal to edge. The installer is fully automated on some platforms (such as AWS) or supports configuration into custom environments (such as metal or labs). OKD adopts developing best practices and technology. A great platform for technologists and students to learn, experiment, and contribute across the cloud ecosystem. -
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IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (SA MP) is cluster-managing software that facilitates the automatic switching of users, applications, and data from one database system to another in a cluster. Tivoli SA MP automates control of IT resources such as processes, file systems, and IP addresses. Tivoli SA MP provides a framework to automatically manage the availability of what are known as resources. Any piece of software for which start, monitor, and stop scripts can be written to control. Any network interface card to which Tivoli SA MP was granted access. That is, Tivoli SA MP manages the availability of any IP address that a user wants to use by floating that IP address among NICs that it has access to. This is known as a floating or virtual IP address. In a single-partition Db2 environment, a single Db2 instance is running on a server. This Db2 instance has local access to data (its own executable image as well as databases owned by the instance).
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Pipeshift
Pipeshift
Pipeshift is a modular orchestration platform designed to facilitate the building, deployment, and scaling of open source AI components, including embeddings, vector databases, large language models, vision models, and audio models, across any cloud environment or on-premises infrastructure. The platform offers end-to-end orchestration, ensuring seamless integration and management of AI workloads, and is 100% cloud-agnostic, providing flexibility in deployment. With enterprise-grade security, Pipeshift addresses the needs of DevOps and MLOps teams aiming to establish production pipelines in-house, moving beyond experimental API providers that may lack privacy considerations. Key features include an enterprise MLOps console for managing various AI workloads such as fine-tuning, distillation, and deployment; multi-cloud orchestration with built-in auto-scalers, load balancers, and schedulers for AI models; and Kubernetes cluster management. -
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ClusterVisor
Advanced Clustering
ClusterVisor is an HPC cluster management system that provides comprehensive tools for deploying, provisioning, managing, monitoring, and maintaining high-performance computing clusters throughout their lifecycle. It offers flexible installation options, including deployment via an appliance, which decouples cluster management from the head node, enhancing system resilience. The platform includes LogVisor AI, an integrated log file analysis tool that utilizes AI to classify logs by severity, enabling the creation of actionable alerts. ClusterVisor facilitates node configuration and management with a suite of tools, supports user and group account management, and features customizable dashboards for visualizing cluster-wide information and comparing multiple nodes or devices. It provides disaster recovery capabilities by storing system images for node reinstallation, offers an intuitive web-based rack diagramming tool, and enables comprehensive statistics and monitoring.
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