The field
Named comparisons, not a feature matrix.
Each of these is good engineering, and each may be the right choice for an estate that is not yours. What separates them is not a feature grid — it is who owns your cluster's decisions, and what you pay as it grows.
Cost of ownership
BKE and OpenShift, priced for a bank with three clusters.
The annual and three-year cost of one estate on OpenShift, set against three ways of running it on BKE. Every figure can be recalculated with the rate from your own quote.
Calculator
Your own estate, priced on BKE.
Enter your clusters, worker cores and current platform cost, and see the annual and multi-year difference and the rate per core.
BKE vs OpenShift
The complete platform — every layer decided, integrated and licensed per core. The ground BKE occupies with parts you can name, version and keep.
Read the comparison →BKE vs Rancher
A manager of many clusters with RKE2 underneath — strongest where the fleet is the problem, not the distribution.
Read the comparison →BKE vs Tanzu
Kubernetes shaped to the vSphere estate, licensed accordingly. Compelling exactly as far as that estate extends.
Read the comparison →BKE vs Talos
An immutable, minimal OS-up distribution — a serious and different philosophy about what you should own, starting below the operating system.
Read the comparison →