Cloudera Acquires Taikun to Streamline Hybrid Cloud Kubernetes Management
Cloudera announced on Monday, August 4, 2025, its acquisition of Taikun, a Czech Republic-based software developer specializing in the management of multiple Kubernetes clusters. This strategic move aims to strengthen Cloudera’s capabilities in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments, enhancing its ability to support big data and AI workloads across diverse infrastructures.
Kubernetes, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, has become a foundational technology in modern big data architectures. While it provides a robust framework for running computing clusters both on-premises and in various cloud environments, the proliferation of different Kubernetes distributions offered by each cloud provider has historically led to fragmented management challenges for customers.
Taikun addresses this complexity by offering a unified software platform that enables organizations to deploy and oversee Kubernetes clusters running across multiple public clouds and on-premises deployments from a single control plane. This significantly simplifies operational and technical management for users. Taikun’s solution supports major public cloud offerings such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from Microsoft, and Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) from Amazon. Additionally, it integrates with on-premises and private cloud deployments, including IBM’s Red Hat OpenShift, Proxmox, Zededa, VMware Tanzu, and Zadara, among others.
For Cloudera, which provides a comprehensive big data and AI stack, the acquisition of Taikun holds significant appeal. Taikun’s technology is expected to streamline the deployment and management of Cloudera’s big data and AI workloads, regardless of the underlying cloud or on-premises Kubernetes platform. Taikun also offers over 100 prebuilt Helm charts, which are packages of pre-configured Kubernetes resources, facilitating the deployment of various frameworks, databases, and applications. Cloudera anticipates this will make it easier for customers to deploy its own tools, such as Spark, HBase, Kafka, and Trino, as well as third-party graph databases, on their chosen Kubernetes environments.
Charles Sansbury, CEO of Cloudera, emphasized the importance of the acquisition, stating, “This acquisition marks a pivotal step in our mission to bring the cloud experience wherever enterprise data resides. By integrating Taikun’s container-native platform in our stack, we are removing operational barriers and enabling our customers to unlock faster insights, make smarter decisions, and drive real-time action in every corner of their business.”
Adam Skotnicky, former CEO of Taikun, expressed confidence in the acquisition, commenting that Cloudera is the appropriate home for his company’s technology. “Only Cloudera is the right organization for us to join during this critical moment for data and AI,” he noted.
Founded in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2018, Taikun has been an active member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the OpenInfra Foundation. The company, which had approximately 30 employees, served a diverse customer base, including telecommunications firms, cloud service providers, global system integrators, and independent software vendors. The entire Taikun engineering team will integrate into Cloudera’s Engineering, Product, and Support organization.
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.