StarTree Expands Deployment Flexibility with Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) Support

Organizations need analytics solutions that match their operational reality—sometimes that means deploying powerful tools in your own environment rather than in a vendor’s cloud. StarTree’s new Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) option meets this critical need, giving you complete control over where and how you run your analytics infrastructure.

BYOK allows you to deploy StarTree, powered by Apache Pinot™, directly on your own Kubernetes infrastructure. This option joins StarTree’s existing deployment models—Software as a Service (SaaS) and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)—giving you more choices for implementing analytics solutions that align with your specific requirements.

Control, Compliance, and Cost Optimization With BYOK

Enhanced Security and Compliance

For organizations in regulated industries like Financial Services, security requirements often demand tight control over infrastructure. With BYOK, you maintain complete ownership of your infrastructure and data environments. You can deploy in air-gapped environments with strict security protocols, meet data residency requirements, and follow industry-specific regulations without compromise.

Deploying StarTree within your own Kubernetes environment takes security one step further than BYOC, which needs delegated access to the data plane during deployment.

Optimizing Costs for Predictable Workloads

Many analytics workloads follow consistent patterns that don’t require the elasticity cloud providers charge premium rates for. Like BYOC, BYOK helps you align your infrastructure costs with your actual usage.

You can avoid unexpected egress and compute charges by deploying on-premises when financially advantageous. This approach maintains high performance while giving you more predictable, manageable costs—especially important for large-scale deployments with steady workloads.

Deploy Anywhere You Need

Whether you need to run in a private cloud or on-premises, BYOK supports your deployment strategy. You can distribute workloads across your existing infrastructure and integrate with your on-prem storage systems. BYOK also supports custom hardware configurations and specialized environments, giving you maximum flexibility.

What StarTree Manages vs. Your Responsibilities

Even with BYOK, StarTree continues to provide substantial managed services. The StarTree team provides instructions and support for installing the StarTree agent, handles ongoing software upgrades, and manages Pinot cluster maintenance. We’ll take care of faulty node replacement, capacity management and provide 24×7 support via tickets, with alerts to our on-call team for critical issues.

You maintain control over your Kubernetes environment—including ownership, upgrades, and add-ons like CNI, CSI, and load balancers. You’ll also handle manual Karpenter configuration changes when needed.

Some responsibilities are shared. Production incident resolution involves you sharing logs with the StarTree team and debugging alongside them. StarTree provides runbooks and best practices, while capacity management (both horizontal and vertical scaling) becomes a collaborative effort.

Getting Started with BYOK

BYOK eliminates the traditional complexity of deploying and managing Apache Pinot—the distributed OLAP datastore that powers StarTree’s offering. While Pinot excels at handling high-volume, quick-response workloads, managing such a system has historically been challenging. StarTree’s tooling for ingestion, scaling, and security makes it significantly easier for you to deploy production-grade Pinot environments.

Other Deployment Options

With the addition of BYOK, StarTree now offers a complete range of deployment options:

SaaS deployment gives you zero operational overhead with automatic updates and maintenance—the simplest path to implementation.

Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) lets you deploy StarTree Cloud within your own cloud account. You maintain data residency within your environment, leverage existing VPC networking, eliminate data egress costs, and gain greater control while still benefiting from StarTree’s managed service.

Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) provides the ultimate deployment flexibility. Deploy on any Kubernetes environment with support for air-gapped systems and custom hardware. This option is ideal for organizations with specialized infrastructure requirements or strict on-prem needs.

Unlock Continuous Insights with StarTree Cloud

Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) represents StarTree’s commitment to meeting you where you are in your analytics journey. Whether through fully managed SaaS, Bring Your Own Cloud, or now BYOK, you can implement analytics solutions that align with your specific requirements without compromising on performance, security, or cost management.

If you’re looking to leverage the power of real-time analytics while maintaining complete control over your infrastructure, StarTree’s BYOK offering is now in private preview.

Discover how StarTree’s flexible deployment options align with your specific requirements. Book a demo today.