Is Kubernetes required for my app?
Last updated: January 26, 2026
QUESTION
Is Kubernetes required for my app?
ANSWER
Kuberenetes is a not requirement for your app.
The Nuon configuration for your app's underlying infrastructure is called a sandbox.
The sandbox is Terraform to deploy whatever infrastructure your app needs.
All sandboxes set up cloud resources expected and required by the Nuon control plane including:
A container registry e.g., AWS ECR
IAM policy for registry access and IAM policy attachments for the provision, maintenance, and de-provision roles for the runner to create and destroy cloud resources
DNS resources including a private and optional public hosted zone
The customer VPC, subnets, ASG EC2 VM, runner, and IAM roles for provision, maintenance and de-provision — are created before the sandbox is deployed, during the initial CloudFormation stack deployment.
Nuon maintains Kubernetes sandboxes for AWS EKS and Azure AKS and a minimum sandbox without Kubernetes, where you can define one or more Nuon TOML components for any other infrastructure your app requires. e.g., AWS EC2 VM, AWS ECS, S3, serverless, etc.
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