ZeusK8s
The honest truth about Kubernetes

It starts manageable.
It doesn't stay that way.

  • One cluster is manageable.
  • Two is painful.
  • Three is when nobody fully understands it anymore.

Most teams get a cluster running and assume the hard part is done. It isn't. The gap between a running cluster and one you can actually operate — survive an outage, scale without drama, hand off to someone else — is where teams get stuck. Zeus closes that gap.

Amazon EKS· Google GKE· Your own hardware with Proxmox / k3s
Global fabric
AWS · GCP · private cloud · self-healing
Mesh healthy
pdx-prodAWS · us-west-2sjc-prodAWS · us-west-1den-edgeProxmox · private clouddfw-prodGCP · us-south1oma-prodGCP · us-central1chs-prodGCP · us-east1iad-prodAWS · us-east-1
Seven clusters, one system
AWS, GCP and your own hardware — every request served by the closest healthy region.
When something breaks, Zeus routes around it. When you need more capacity, it's already there. No pages, no manual steps.
3
clouds, one control plane
AWS, Google, and your own hardware.
99.999%
availability target
Survives a full region — or an entire provider — going down.
< 1 min
to a running cluster
Networking and add-ons wired for you.
1
definition, every region
Deploy once, everywhere at once.
The gap nobody warns you about

Getting it running is the easy part.

An AI assistant can stand up a Kubernetes cluster in an afternoon. Tutorials cover day one. What they don't cover is month three, when something breaks at 3am and the one person who set it up is asleep. Or month twelve, when a routine upgrade silently breaks something that was always configured wrong. Or the moment you realize your failover plan has never actually been tested.

Knowledge concentrates in one or two people. Configs drift from what they're supposed to be. And none of the tools you're using — Terraform for provisioning, Lens for visibility, kubectl for fixes, Grafana for monitoring — share context with each other. The gap between "what we think is running" and "what's actually running" grows quietly, until something breaks and nobody can explain why.

Where most teams end up

So you settle for one of two bad endings.

Nobody picks these on purpose. They're just where you end up when connecting infrastructure is this hard.

Live with the mess

Wiring it up properly — networking, identity, DNS, failover, policy — takes years of specialist work and a dedicated team to keep it stable. Most teams don't have that runway. So configs stay fragmented, knowledge concentrates in one or two people, and the system becomes impossible to hand off.

Hand it to a black box

Reach for an all-in-one platform that hides the infrastructure. Fast to start. But now your reliability, your scale, and your data are theirs. When they have an outage, you have an outage. And you can never leave.

Both solve the symptom and miss the point. Infrastructure doesn't need to be hidden or outsourced. It needs to be easy, and stay yours.

The ZeusK8s way

Run it anywhere. As one system. Still yours.

ZeusK8s gives you the capability a platform team would build, without the team, the year, or the lock-in. Compute in as many places as you need, connected into one system, on infrastructure you own and can always walk away with.

Your clusters run in your AWS account, your GCP project, or on your own Proxmox hardware — not ours. Zeus is the control plane that connects and manages them. Remove it and they keep running.

01
One global cluster

Many clusters that behave like one

Join clusters across AWS, Google, and your own hardware into a single fabric. A service in Frankfurt can call a service in Ohio by its name, encrypted, as if they shared a node. The cross-cloud networking, the part teams normally lose a quarter to, is a toggle.

Built on an encrypted WireGuard overlay. You get one private network across clouds; you don’t get the VPNs, peering, and colliding IP ranges it normally takes to stand one up by hand.

02
Data that follows your apps

A database that’s already in the other region

Deploy MySQL, PostgreSQL, or ClickHouse and tell it to go global. ZeusK8s places it across your clusters and keeps it replicated. Write in one region, read it in another a heartbeat later. Your existing apps don’t change a line.

No rewrite to a distributed database, no migration to a new engine. The same database your code already speaks, just everywhere your users are.

03
Kubernetes on anything

The same workflow on every provider

EKS, GKE, bare metal, Proxmox/k3s, all provisioned through one flow that doesn’t change when the infrastructure underneath it does. Learn it once. What comes out the other end is ordinary, inspectable Kubernetes.

No proprietary runtime, no lock-in. Export the manifests and walk away whenever you want, though the whole point is that you won’t need to.

One console, every cluster

Every cluster you own, on one screen.

AWS, Google, and your own hardware in a single list, with the same status, the same actions, and the same mental model. No three consoles, no three ways of doing the same thing. When the infrastructure underneath changes, the workflow on top of it doesn't.

Zeus · Clusters
Clusters
6 clusters · 3 providers
Live New Cluster
NameProviderRegionVersionNodesStatus
production-usAWS EKSus-east-11.306Ready
production-euGKEeurope-west31.304Ready
stagingAWS EKSus-west-21.29→1.30 ⚠3Ready
edge-apacGKEasia-east11.302Ready
HQ Denverk3sDenver, COv1.35.55Ready
prox-test01ProxmoxProvo, UTv1.34.1Provisioning
Data that follows your apps

A database that's already in the other region.

Deploy MySQL, PostgreSQL, or ClickHouse, tell it to go global, and Zeus places it across your clusters and keeps it replicated, with backups and point-in-time restore included. Write in one region, read it in another a heartbeat later. Your app keeps talking to a normal endpoint.

Zeus · Infrastructure · MySQL (global)
orders-db · MySQL
Global · 2 regions · async replication
Replicating
AWS · us-east-1 Primary
writer
orders-db.zeus.internal ✓ accepting writes
41ms lag
GKE · europe-west3 Replica
reader
orders-db-ro.zeus.internal ✓ in sync
Writes / s
2,480
us-east-1
Reads / s
9,140
europe-west3
Replica lag
41 ms
p99 · healthy
One platform, not one trick

Everything between bare infrastructure and a running platform.

Right now you probably have a different tool for each of these — and none of them share context with the others. Zeus handles credentials, services and images, DNS and customer-facing domains, identity and RBAC, and a live view of everything running, each as a graphical surface, all in one place.

One cluster or five

Consistent config across every cluster

Most teams start with one cluster they half-understand. Zeus makes that one legible — and stays out of your way when you add more.

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Builds & CI

Builds: native multi-arch, no queues

One builder per build. No QEMU. No blocked teams waiting for a slow job to free a runner.

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Config management

Environments: layered config, no drift

Config drift — a value different in prod than staging — is behind most outages nobody can explain.

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Deployment tracking

Deployments: know what's running, everywhere

"What version is in prod right now?" shouldn't be a research project — but across multiple clusters it always becomes one.

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Global deploy

Global deploy: one action, every region

When you have more than two clusters, per-cluster deploy scripts stop making sense. Nobody fully understands them anymore.

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Cloud IAM

IAM: per-service cloud identity, no static keys

A long-lived access key in every image, with unknown scope. That's how most teams handle cloud access.

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Deployment model

Run Zeus anywhere: cloud or self-hosted

Your control plane, your call. Same product, same price — the only difference is where your config lives.

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One credential store

Connections: every secret, one place

Stop scattering API keys across services, environments, and every place they end up.

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Build & deploy

Services: define, build, ship

23 YAML files and a Helm chart nobody fully understands — that's the default. There's a better way.

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DNS & certificates

Domains: DNS and certs, automatic

Expiry pages and manual cert renewals are a solved problem. Zeus just never told you.

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The global fabric

Networking: many clusters, one fabric

VPC peering you don't fully understand is a liability. Zeus replaces it with something you can read.

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Stateful data

Data: global, backed up, recoverable

Your DR runbook is a Notion doc. Your backups have never been tested. That's the real risk.

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Identity & RBAC

Security: identity, RBAC, compliance

Access keys baked into images. Over-permissioned roles. The audit will find them before you do.

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See everything

Observability: live, not after the fact

Engineers in panic mode, googling why pods are evicting, is not an observability strategy.

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Day-two

Operations: provision, upgrade, tear down

Tribal knowledge and a DR runbook nobody has tested — that’s what most teams are actually running on.

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AI assistant & MCP

An assistant that already knows your clusters

The knowledge of how your clusters actually behave usually lives in one person’s head. Zeus reads the same live infrastructure and answers when they’re out.

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Build & ship

Define a service once. Ship it anywhere.

Container, ports, health checks, scaling, storage, networking, RBAC, identities, secrets: the whole service in one editor instead of ten files. Deploy it to any cluster, override per environment, and watch the pods come up live.

How services work →
Zeus · Service · api-gateway
api-gateway
Deployment · 3 environments · 2 clusters
Deploy
BasicContainerImagesNetworkingStorageScalingRBACIdentitiesConnectionsEnvironments
registry/api-gateway
8080 / http
Resources
CPU request250m
CPU limit1000m
Memory req256Mi
Memory limit1Gi
Health checks
ReadinessGET /healthz
LivenessGET /healthz
Startupoff
Same definition deploys to EKS, GKE, and Proxmox. Preview YAML →
No YAML. No drift. No tribal knowledge.

Configuration you can actually see.

The thing that makes Kubernetes painful at scale isn't Kubernetes itself. It's the giant, drifting config files nobody can compare or keep straight. Zeus turns that into a graphical surface: change things in a panel, and it's consistent across every related deployment, team, and environment.

  • One source of truth
    Not scattered across repos, values files, and people's heads. The console is the truth, and it's the same truth for every team.
  • Related things stay in sync
    An app, its database, its network policy, its permissions, all managed together instead of in four files you reconcile by hand.
  • No expertise tax
    A capable generalist can change things safely without memorizing a schema. And it still emits standard, exportable Kubernetes, so nothing is hidden or locked in.
Zeus · Deploy MySQL
Deploy database
One panel. No YAML. Same on every cluster.
MySQL 8.0
Global · multi-region
us-east-1 · primary europe-west3 · replica + add region
Encryption at rest
Cross-region replication
Automatic backups
Public endpoint
Generates standard Kubernetes, yours to export anytime. Deploy
From the teams running it

Trusted with mission-critical, multi-region workloads.

We went multi-region without hiring the platform team we'd been told we needed. The database following our app across regions is the part I still don't quite believe.
VP Engineering
real-time communications platform
One console for AWS, Google, and the racks in our colo. My team stopped context-switching between three sets of tools and started shipping.
Head of Infrastructure
B2B SaaS
The honesty is what sold me. It told me where it wasn't the right tool. Everything it does claim to do, it actually does.
Staff Engineer
fintech

Identities withheld at customers' request.

The cluster is running. Zeus makes sure it stays that way.

Provision, connect, deploy, and operate every cluster you own from one console — without the tribal knowledge, the fragmented tools, or the 2am pages. Yours to run, yours to keep.