Mamluk launches Bahriya Tersane, its production Helm charts, as a product in its own right

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — 25 October 2026 — Mamluk today launched Bahriya Tersane, a catalogue of production Helm charts licensed for installation on the customer’s own premises. Tersane was previously offered as the Mamluk Enterprise Helm Charts. It is now a product in its own right, with its own site at tersane.bahriya.cloud, and is licensed either as an addition to the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine or on its own, for any conformant Kubernetes distribution.

The charts in Tersane are the charts that run the managed services on bahriya.cloud, the public cloud Mamluk operates. A licensed organisation installs the same charts inside its own perimeter, and no data leaves it.

The platform above the cluster

A Kubernetes cluster that can run production is not yet a platform. Applications need databases, caches, message brokers, identity, a container registry and continuous integration, and each needs replication, backups and an upgrade path decided before it carries real data. Tersane holds those decisions in a catalogue organised by function: data, messaging, identity, a container registry and continuous integration, workloads and security.

Each chart is opinionated about resource limits, pod disruption budgets, anti-affinity, backups and access control, and each is documented in full: its values, its upgrade path and the decisions it makes on the operator’s behalf. That documentation is public at tersane.bahriya.cloud/docs, with no account in front of it, so a chart can be read before it is licensed.

A published chart version is never changed or withdrawn. A release pinned to a version can therefore always be reinstalled, which is what an organisation needs when it rebuilds an environment or restores one after an incident.

With BKE, or on its own

The Bahriya Kubernetes Engine makes two decisions: the network fabric and the Kubernetes version. Tersane supplies what runs above them. Together they are the combination that runs bahriya.cloud, and they occupy the ground an integrated enterprise platform occupies, assembled from parts an organisation can name, version and keep.

Tersane may also be licensed on its own, at a higher price, for any conformant Kubernetes distribution. The charts carry BKE’s defaults, so running them elsewhere calls for experience with Kubernetes and the components the charts expect, or for Mamluk’s engineering services.

In both cases Tersane is licensed per organisation, per year. The licence does not grow with the number of clusters, nodes or cores, and includes chart updates, upgrade compatibility, security patches and ticketed support aligned to GCC working hours. Pricing is provided on request.

Convoys, beginning with banking

Tersane also introduces convoys: optional, industry-specific additions that install on top of Tersane and are licensed separately. The first is the Banking Convoy, a curated catalogue of digital banking applications built and maintained by Mamluk’s banking specialists and installed alongside a bank’s existing digital banking platform.

“Most of the work in running a platform happens after the installation: the backups, the failovers, the upgrades and the restores,” said Meezaan-ud-Din, Founder of Mamluk. “Tersane is that work, written down as charts we run on our own cloud every day. Giving it its own name and its own home makes it easier for an organisation to see what it is buying, whether or not it runs BKE.”

The name

A tersane was a naval arsenal, the yard in which a fleet was built and fitted. The Ottoman word came from the Ligurian tersaná, and before that from the Arabic dār aṣ-ṣināʿa, the house of industry. English took arsenal from the same root. The name follows Bahriya, the river-stationed regiment of the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo, after which Mamluk’s cloud and its Kubernetes distribution are named.

Availability

Bahriya Tersane is available now. Organisations can read the catalogue and the chart documentation at tersane.bahriya.cloud and enquire about a licence through mamluk.net.

About Mamluk

Mamluk LLC-FZ is an engineering firm in the Meydan Free Zone, Dubai, specialising in enterprise architecture, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. It develops the Bahriya Kubernetes Engine, the only enterprise Kubernetes distribution developed and supported from within the GCC, Bahriya Tersane and Kipchak, and operates the public cloud bahriya.cloud.

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