Open-source alternative · Container Platform
Replace Azure Kubernetes Service with K3s / Rancher.
Azure Kubernetes Service: AKS
K3s for lightweight production Kubernetes or Rancher for multi-cluster management with GUI. Full AKS replacement. Self-hosted on your infrastructure, no cluster management fees.
Today's licence price
2 tiers. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)'s prices.
Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.
Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.
Five years on the books
What the spend looks like compounding.
Azure Kubernetes Service grows around 10% per year on average. K3s / Rancher hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.
Five-year cumulative saving
R0.53M
Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.
How this migration runs
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) → K3s / Rancher, in four moves.
Audit
Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.
Plan
Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.
Migrate
Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.
Operate
Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.
Same category
Other container platform migrations.
Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.
Migrate Azure Kubernetes Service.
Keep the money.
Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.