Mamluk · United Arab Emirates

Engineering the infrastructure that the region cannot afford to get wrong.

Mamluk is a small, deep engineering firm based in the UAE. We design enterprise architecture, build and run Kubernetes platforms, and license the same Kubernetes distribution that powers our own public cloud. Our standards are not negotiable — they are the only reason our customers stay.

60M+

Daily requests served

2013

In production since

1,500+

Developers on our platforms

5

Open source projects in production

What we do

Three disciplines. One standard.

We sell our time and our software at standardised, transparent rates — the same way we want to buy professional services ourselves.

01

Enterprise Architecture as a Service

A senior architect on call, paid for by the day.

Beginning at US $1,200 / per day

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02

Kubernetes Consulting

Strategy, architecture and platform design for Kubernetes done properly.

Beginning at US $1,200 / per day

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03

Kubernetes Development

Custom operators, charts, controllers and the long maintenance tail.

Beginning at Scope-priced

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Our flagship product

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine.

The same Kubernetes distribution we run our public cloud on, available for on-premise installation. One flat license per cluster. No per-node, per-CPU or per-core surprises.

Beginning atUS $12,000 / cluster / year

Irrespective of node count or CPU. Support & maintenance contracts available on request.

Bahriya Kubernetes Engine

The Mamluk standard

Service. Integrity. Determination.

The word Mamluk in Arabic literally means one who serves. The Mamluks of Cairo — slave-soldiers who rose to govern Egypt and Syria for nearly three centuries — built their reputation on chivalry, technical mastery and an uncompromising devotion to their craft.

We took the name deliberately. Every product we build, every engagement we accept, and every line of code we ship is judged against that inheritance.

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Service
We measure success by the resilience of what we leave behind — not by hours billed.
Integrity
Standardised rates. Plain pricing. No commission games, no surprise change-orders.
Determination
We accept work we know we can finish. Then we finish it.
Patronage of craft
We invest in open source the same way the Mamluks invested in scholars and artisans.

Our brands

A small house, with reach.