Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) vs. Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (formerly Docker Enterprise)

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP - formerly known as D2IQ Kubernetes Platform) is a turnkey, enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform built to simplify platform engineering and scale cloud-native operations anywhere. Built on pure, CNCF-validated upstream open-source projects, NKP eliminates vendor lock-in while providing a fully integrated, production-ready container stack. NKP establishes a single point of control for managing fleets of Kubernetes clusters across public clouds (including Amazon EKS and Azure AKS), on-premises data centers, remote edge sites, and bare-metal servers.

Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE) is the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, designed to provide organizations with total control over their strategic infrastructure. Powering some of the world’s largest production clusters, MKE 4 introduces a 100% open-source, "composable" architecture based on k0s. This shift allows platform engineers to precisely tailor their stack by swapping in validated CNCF ecosystem components for networking, ingress, and storage, avoiding the "black box" limitations of proprietary distributions.