📦SecretVM Cluster Solutions

SecretVM lets you run more than a single VM. When you need redundancy, high availability, or workloads that scale with demand, you can deploy a cluster of SecretVMs that work together — all on confidential infrastructure.

There are two cluster solutions, chosen at creation time under Deployment Mode:

Solution	What it is	Reach for it when
Load-Balanced Clusters	Several identical SecretVMs running the same Docker Compose app behind a managed load balancer, served from one hostname.	You have a Docker Compose app and want redundancy, high availability, or horizontal scaling across a fixed set of nodes.
Kubernetes Clusters	A K3s control plane with an autoscaler that provisions and terminates worker-node VMs on demand, plus a built-in dashboard.	You want to run standard Kubernetes manifests on infrastructure that scales itself up and down automatically.

Choosing a solution

• Pick a Load-Balanced Cluster if your app is already a Docker Compose service and you mainly want copies of it sharing traffic behind a load balancer, with control over the balancing strategy, sticky sessions, and health checks.

• Pick a Kubernetes Cluster if you want a real Kubernetes environment — manifests, Deployments, Services — and want the cluster to add and remove capacity for you as workload demand changes.

Both run on SecretVMs, support secrets and confidential configuration, and are created from Secret VMs → Create.

Ready to dive in? Continue to the Load-Balanced Clusters or Kubernetes Clusters guide.