Easy to use with no big vendor lock-in? Nice idea but it's still early days Tim Anderson Tue 12 Jan 2021 // 14:32 UTC Share Copy Red Kubes, a small company based in the Netherlands, has released a free Community Edition of its Otomi Container Platform with the goal of making Kubernetes both easier to use and more portable between cloud providers or on-premises. "Otomi is not a Kubernetes distribution," Red Kubes CEO and co-founder Sander Rodenhuis told The Reg. "We expect that the customer already has a Kubernetes cluster. "When you start working with Kubernetes you end up installing a lot of add-ons for monitoring, logging, security, service mesh, and all kinds of stuff. They are not integrated so you need to install them one by one. You end up with technical debt, because if there's an update, you also need to modify your own customisations."