This blog highlights a suite of powerful enhancements to how you deploy, manage, and scale your Kubernetes environments using HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software.
We are pleased to introduce a series of significant advancements to the Kubernetes capabilities within HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software, developed over our most recent release cycles. These updates represent a major step forward in our commitment to providing an advanced suite of capabilities for the deployment, governance, and scaling of enterprise container environments.
Central to this evolution is our CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution
HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service—formerly known as Morpheus Kubernetes Service (MKS)—which serves as the foundation for these enhancements. This latest release specifically prioritizes the automated integration with HPE Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM)–based hypervisor, HVM while introducing robust new autoscaling functionalities and a streamline approach to full-spectrum lifecycle management.
By simplifying complex Kubernetes operations, we continue to empower organizations to manage their infrastructure with greater precision and reduced operational overhead.
To meet the demanding requirements of infrastructure choice and flexibility, along with high performance, we are excited to introduce Kubernetes deployment on virtual machines (VMs) on HVM.
This advanced feature allows HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service to deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads within secure, isolated VM environments on the underlying cloud or infrastructure layer. This provides enhanced security isolation and guarantees dedicated resources for your most critical applications, offering the performance benefits of containers with the enterprise-grade isolation of a dedicated VM.
Customers leveraging HPE hardware and virtualization solutions can now use the HPE Morpheus Enterprise user interface (UI), command line interface (CLI), and application programming interface (API) to provision and orchestrate Kubernetes clusters on their VMs with a few clicks. This integration simplifies and automates the bootstrapping of Kubernetes clusters on HPE virtualization platform, thus providing a robust, reliable, and standardized deployment for you to quickly stand-up production-ready environments on your infrastructure stack.
Figure 1. HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service cluster provisioning on HVM
Figure 2. Provisioned cluster details
The days of siloed teams managing VMs and containers separately are over. HPE Morpheus Enterprise has long championed a holistic view of infrastructure, and this release further solidifies our position with truly unified VM and container management.
Within the HPE Morpheus Enterprise interface, your teams can provision, manage, monitor, and govern both traditional HVM clusters and modern Kubernetes clusters from a single pane of glass. This consolidation drastically reduces operational overhead, enforces consistent policies across all resource types, and accelerates your hybrid cloud journey by breaking down the barrier between infrastructure and application teams.
Figure 3. Unified management of VMs and Kubernetes
Figure 4. Kubernetes cluster details
Staying current is critical for security, stability, and access to the latest performance improvements. HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service now supports both Kubernetes 1.33 and Kubernetes 1.34 versions.
This update not only allows you to deploy new clusters with the latest version but also introduces powerful lifecycle management (LCM) features. You can now implement nondisruptive upgrades from Kubernetes 1.32 to 1.33 to 1.34 directly within the HPE Morpheus Enterprise interface. This streamlined process handles all prerequisite checks, component updates, and rolling node replacements, drastically reducing the complexity and risk traditionally associated with major version upgrades. HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service helps ensure that your transition to K8s 1.34 is smooth, keeping your applications online and available throughout the maintenance window.
1. Initial Kubernetes deployment showing that it is running Layout 1.32
2. From the cluster ACTIONS menu, select Upgrade Cluster
3. From the list of available layouts, choose the version to upgrade to
4. Cluster status changes to Provisioning, and in the History tab, you can see that the upgrade status
5. Upgrade completes and status reports OK
6. Summary tab of cluster now reports layout version 1.33
Our new release introduces Autoscaler support capabilities. HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service now provides Kubernetes cluster Autoscaler natively and goes a step further by providing a unified view and management layer. You can now define scaling rules directly within the HPE Morpheus Enterprise interface, intelligently reacting to changes in load. This helps ensure your clusters automatically grow during peak demand and shrink during quiet periods, optimizing resource utilization and keeping your infrastructure costs in check.
In this release, clusters are provisioned using standardized HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service templates with Kubernetes versions 1.33 and 1.34 on Ubuntu 24.04. These new cluster layouts now support enabling and disabling auto-scaling. When enabled during cluster provisioning, clusters are constantly monitored and considered for scale-up when there are pending pods that can’t be scheduled due to insufficient resources. Clusters are considered for scale-down when nodes are underutilized and drainable.
1. Autoscaler is enabled by checking the Enable Autoscaler check box in the Worker configuration screen of the MKS provisioning wizard.
Figure 5. Autoscaling configuration
HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service simplifies the implementation of a highly available (HA) control plane by integrating support for kube-vip, a lightweight solution that provides a virtual IP (VIP) address and load balancing without requiring external hardware. This functionality is crucial for production environments, as it eliminates single points of failure in the control plane components that manage workloads and cluster state, thus ensuring seamless failover between multiple control plane nodes. This integrated approach allows HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service to orchestrate resilient, enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters on various infrastructures, from bare metal to public clouds, directly from its unified management interface. Three node high available control plane clusters are supported for all HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service deployments, both bare metal and virtualized environments.
Kubernetes 1.33 cluster creation—with a single master (on bare metal)
Figure 6. Non-HA control plane provisioning
Kubernetes 1.33 on HVM cluster creation—with HA (3 masters) (on bare metal)
Figure 7. HA control plane provisioning
The Kubernetes cluster provisioning on HVM automates the configuration of control plane compute, memory, and IP settings, minimizing manual effort.
Figure 8. Automated HA control plane provisioning with HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service on HVM
We have introduced several significant enhancements to how HPE Morpheus Enterprise for Kubernetes service orchestrates Kubernetes deployments using Helm. These updates focus on providing greater flexibility, easier lifecycle management, and dynamic configuration options, streamlining the deployment process for complex applications.
Review configuration details, prerequisites, and supported architectures in the official HPE support documentation.
Meet the Author:
Karthik Subramanian,
Principal Product Manager – HPE Morpheus Enterprise
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