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Announcement · BKE
The Passage Plan: every BKE upgrade, laid out before it runs
Before the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine changes a component's configuration, it reports what would change and stops. The Passage Plan shows that report in the Mamluk console, in full and in colour, for anyone in the organisation to read before the...
Article · BKE
Kubernetes built from parts: what a composable distribution gives the enterprise
Most Kubernetes distributions are sold as a finished platform, and the organisation that buys one inherits every decision inside it. BKE is a fixed base and a set...
Announcement · Kipchak
SFTP and feature flags for Kipchak
Two new free Kipchak drivers: SFTP for exchanging batch files with partners, and feature flags from Unleash, Flagsmith or GrowthBook.
Announcement · Kipchak
A hardened runtime image for Kipchak
The Kipchak Enterprise runtime image runs an API as a single static FrankenPHP binary on an otherwise empty filesystem, with no shell, no package manager and no root...
Announcement · Kipchak
Usage metering and quotas for Kipchak
Kipchak APIs can now record what each customer uses and enforce what each customer has bought, with Usage Metering, Quotas and Kipchak Identity.
Announcement · Kipchak
Request signing and Open Policy Agent for Kipchak
Two new Kipchak packages: a free middleware that verifies signed requests and webhooks, and an Enterprise driver for Open Policy Agent.
Article · BKE
What three clusters cost a bank: BKE and OpenShift compared
A bank in Saudi Arabia running production, staging and performance testing on 320 worker cores pays for OpenShift by the core. The same estate on BKE, with the...
Announcement · BKE
BKE has its own home: bke.bahriya.cloud
The Bahriya Kubernetes Engine now has a dedicated site, and its installation and operation documentation is public — the same pages our customers operate from, readable before you...
Announcement · BKE
The Mamluk Console opens with self-service BKE trials
console.maml.uk is open to everyone: licences for BKE and Kipchak Enterprise, versioned documentation and ticketed support in one place — and a 14-day BKE trial you issue yourself,...
Announcement · BKE
Bahriya Kubernetes Engine 2.0.0 is released
BKE 2.0.0 moves the Kubernetes minor and, by design, nothing else. It also brings cluster login through your own identity provider and configuration you own, with upgrades that...
Announcement · Kipchak
A new Kipchak website and a public enterprise roadmap
kipchak.dev has been redesigned as a full product site, and the Kipchak Enterprise tier now has a published roadmap, published licence terms and support through the Mamluk Console....
Article · Enterprise architecture
Operators are not builders: why the region resells software
Handing a customer-facing product to the IT department — and to an IT manager — is a category error, not a resourcing decision. IT engineering selects, integrates and...
Article · Enterprise architecture
One body, many masters: DevOps has an architectural cause
The industry took a word coined to remove a wall and turned it into a department. Splitting development from operations damages a business the way a body would...
Article · Kipchak
Inside Subashi Pro
A full tour of the enterprise WAF for Kipchak — the rule model, the OWASP defaults, geo and ASN matching, rate limiting and diagnostics.
Announcement · Kipchak
Subashi Pro now matches geo and ASN locally
Subashi Pro 1.25 resolves country and ASN from databases bundled with the middleware — no API key, and no network call while a request is in flight.
Press Release · Bahriya Cloud
Bahriya Cloud reaches general availability
Bahriya, the first public cloud provider built in the United Arab Emirates, today exited early access. Container deployment, Managed Valkey and Managed Memcached are generally available across four...
Article · Software development
3 reasons why your SDLC has not improved with AI
Two years of copilots, agents and pilots, and the delivery numbers have barely moved. Three reasons: the tool does not travel left to right, nobody agreed what the...
Press Release · Bahriya Cloud
Managed Valkey: Bahriya's first managed persistent service
Bahriya, the first public cloud provider built in the United Arab Emirates, today launched Managed Valkey — an enterprise in-memory data store engineered in Dubai, with bring-your-own-key TLS,...
Press Release · Company
Mamluk relocates its registered entity to Meydan Free Zone
Mamluk LLC-FZ has completed the relocation of its registered entity from Sharjah Media City to Meydan Free Zone in Dubai, a logistical move that places the company in...
Announcement · Company
Winding down 7x on 1 September 2026
We are closing the public 7x service on 1 September 2026 to focus on Bahriya and the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.
Announcement · Kipchak
Kipchak v3 is generally available
Kipchak v3 ships with PHP 8.5 and still maintains compatibility with 8.4.
Article · Kubernetes
DCCAPTN - a CAP theorem adapted for distributed containers
CAP theorem to the reality of distributed container ecosystems: Consistency, Availability, Performance, and Tolerance of Network Failures as four dials wired to each other, not a menu you...
Article · Kubernetes
Why sovereign Kubernetes matters more than a cloud region
A new availability zone with a local flag on it is not sovereignty. Real control means owning the distribution, the operators and the people who get paged at...
Announcement · Bahriya Cloud
Bahriya is live — and we're opening early access
Bahriya - an Edge Container Cloud from Bahriya is now live and accepting early access users.
Press Release · BKE
Mamluk launches managed on-premise Kubernetes for the GCC
UAE-based Mamluk LLC today announced a fully managed on-premise Kubernetes offering, run by GCC-resident engineers on the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, for organisations that cannot send their data offshore....