Platform as a service (PAAS) featuring computer software platforms for a cloud-based infrastructure platform, built to manage the public and private cloud; solution to address key challenges of large-scale clouds, including system scalability, resource efficiency, multitenancy, edge computing, and the native support for the fast-growing modern workloads, namely, containers and serverless functions; supports large scale of network endpoints in one cluster, fast network provisioning, high network throughput and low latency, multi-tenant isolation for traffic and address spaces; a scalable architecture by partitioning and scaling out components, consisting of API server, storage, controllers, and data plane; container orchestration; built-in support for Virtual Machines; enables cloud providers use a single converged stack to manage all cloud hosts