NKP: one edition per management cluster; managing EKS or AKS alongside NKP requires Ultimate
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- Statement
- NKP datasheet (modified 2026-05-21), Deployment: "Mixing different NKP edition licenses in the same NKP management cluster isn't supported." "If the same NKP management cluster must manage NKP and EKS or AKS, the only possible licensing option is the NKP Ultimate edition." NKP Cloud Kubernetes (an Ultimate SKU) is for managing only EKS or AKS, is priced per vCPU of all worker nodes including the management cluster, and requires a licensed NKP management cluster.
- Applies when
- An NKP management cluster manages clusters of different editions, or Amazon EKS / Azure AKS clusters.
- Applies to
- NKP Pro, NKP Ultimate, NKP Cloud Kubernetes.
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