AOE and Kubermatic Form Strategic Partnership

AOE Group and Kubermatic enter into strategic partnership for cloud-native platforms

For a secure, scalable, and future-ready Kubernetes infrastructure

AOE Group from Wiesbaden and Kubermatic from Hamburg announce their strategic partnership. The goal of the collaboration is to comprehensively support companies in the introduction, operation, and scaling of modern Kubernetes platforms. In doing so, both companies combine their respective strengths: AOE brings profound consulting expertise and operational know-how in the area of Cloud & DevOps, while Kubermatic delivers a powerful technical solution for managing distributed Kubernetes clusters with the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP).

Wiesbaden/Hamburg, June 06, 2025

The strategic partnership aims to accompany companies holistically on the path to a cloud-native platform — from strategic planning to implementation to production-ready operation. AOE has many years of experience in the design, operation, and automation of complex cloud infrastructures. Kubermatic complements this expertise with a robust platform technology that enables efficient management of Kubernetes clusters across diverse infrastructures — whether on-premises, in the public cloud, or at edge locations.

The cooperation pursues the shared goal of sustainably conceptualizing cloud-native platforms from the ground up — with a focus on operational security, maintainability, and future viability. The Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform offers an ideal technological foundation for this: automated lifecycle management, a policy-based governance model, multi-cluster capability, as well as open interfaces create the prerequisites for sustainable platform architectures. AOE complements this technological depth through methodical consulting, enablement, and operational support — with the goal of sustainably empowering internal platform and DevOps teams on the customer side.

In doing so, AOE and Kubermatic focus primarily on companies that want to strategically expand their Kubernetes usage — whether through the development of modern platforms or the stabilization and further development of existing environments. Organizations with high requirements for security, compliance, technological sovereignty, and automation particularly benefit from the combined expertise of both partners.

“With Kubermatic, we have found the ideal partner to holistically support our customers in building modern, sovereign, and automated cloud-native platforms,” says Kevin Schu, Director Cloud & DevOps at AOE.

Sebastian Scheele, CEO of Kubermatic, adds: “The partnership with AOE is another step for us to support companies even more precisely in building and operating their Kubernetes platforms.”

Both companies follow an open-source-oriented approach and are actively committed to the further development of sustainable, open platform solutions in the Kubernetes ecosystem. The partnership developed organically from an already existing, successful collaboration in initial customer projects as well as a joint initiative to promote cloud-native competencies. With the now official alliance, the cooperation gains additional momentum — further joint initiatives are already in concrete planning.

About AOE

‍As one of the leading agile software service providers in Germany, AOE Group supports innovative companies in the digital transformation of existing business models through the development of complex custom software, but also through strategic and technological consulting. In addition, AOE Group operates its own Academy, offering training in the areas of DevOps & Cloud, software development and architecture, agility, and cybersecurity. Reference customers include Deutsche Telekom, congstar, and RTL.

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