Turn Bare Metal Into an Enterprise Sovereign Cloud
Okustera provides the complete, production-grade cloud operating software stack that empowers datacenter operators, colocation facilities, and hardware vendors to offer high-margin, self-service sovereign cloud services without multi-million dollar R&D investments.
Hardware Without the Cloud Layer is a Depreciating Asset
Hundreds of datacenter operators, regional telecom providers, and colocation facilities own state-of-the-art server racks, enterprise NVMe storage enclosures, and 100Gbps network fabrics.
Yet, selling raw unmanaged bare metal or static VPS instances traps vendors in a low-margin commodity price war with high customer churn. Today's development teams and enterprise clients refuse to manage physical infrastructure manually. They demand:
- Instant self-service Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) with programmable routing.
- Upstream Kubernetes on-demand with automated scaling and Calico CNI.
- Production DBaaS (Postgres HA, Redis Sentinel) with zero maintenance.
- 100% declarative Infrastructure as Code via Terraform.
What Okustera Deploys On Your Racks
Why Hardware Vendors Choose Okustera
Unlock new recurring enterprise revenue streams by turning physical compute and storage into a fully sovereign, multi-tenant cloud platform.
Turn-Key in Days, Not Years
Skip years of trial and error attempting to glue together hypervisors, software-defined networks, and storage fabrics. Okustera delivers a pre-integrated, production-validated cloud operating platform ready to deploy on bare metal in days.
- Automated Kolla & Kubernetes control plane
- Eliminates multi-million software R&D budgets
- Pre-tested compatibility across major server OEMs
10x Higher Margins & PaaS Revenue
Raw server leasing yields 10–20% margins. Managed cloud services—like high-availability PostgreSQL clusters, automated Redis caching, and Ceph S3 storage—command 60–80% gross margins with high customer stickiness and recurring billing.
- Built-in FinOps metering with OpenStack CloudKitty
- Usage-based billing for RAM, vCPU, and NVMe IOPS
- Automated tenant budget caps and threshold alerts
Zero VMware / Broadcom Tax
Broadcom's dramatic VMware price increases have crippled datacenter provider margins. Okustera is built on 100% upstream open standards: Linux KVM, Ceph, OpenStack, and CNCF Kubernetes. No predatory per-core licensing fees.
- 100% open-source core without proprietary traps
- Hardware owner retains full ownership of margins
- Complete sovereign independence from US tech giants
Hardware-Agnostic & High Density
Okustera runs on standard commodity x86_64 architecture. Whether your datacenter uses Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Supermicro, Lenovo, or white-box ODMs, our control plane orchestrates hardware efficiently with NUMA awareness and live migration.
- Ceph NVMe clustering with triple-replication
- OVN Geneve overlays over standard leaf-spine switches
- Maximizes compute density and revenue per rack unit
Native Terraform & GitOps First
Modern developers refuse to deploy production workloads via manual click-ops web portals. With Okustera, hardware vendors offer first-class Terraform automation via terraform-provider-openstack and terraform-provider-okustera on day one.
- 100% declarative HCL infrastructure definition
- K8s Pod Workload Identity for zero static secrets in CI/CD
- Ready for GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD & Atlantis
Absolute Data Sovereignty & Trust
Enterprise and public-sector clients demand strict data residency guarantees. With Okustera, 100% of tenant data, telemetry, and control plane traffic remains within your physical facility. Compliant with GDPR, NIS2, and sovereign cloud mandates.
- Zero metadata telemetry phoned home to third parties
- Barbican KMS for tenant-managed encryption keys
- Complete isolation between tenants and workloads
Raw Bare Metal vs. Okustera Sovereign Cloud
See how adding the Okustera cloud operating layer transforms your hardware economics and customer value proposition.
| Capability / Dimension | Traditional Bare Metal / Colocation | Hardware Powered by Okustera |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue Model | Low-margin flat server rentals; vulnerable to commoditization | High-margin usage-based billing across IaaS, DBaaS, CaaS & Storage |
| Provisioning Speed | Manual ticket-based or slow pre-imaged OS installs (hours/days) | Instant API & Terraform self-service (seconds) |
| Networking & Multi-Tenancy | Static VLANs, manual switch configuration, rigid subnets | Hardware-isolated OVN Geneve VPCs with dynamic floating IPs & routers |
| Storage Architecture | Local hardware RAID or expensive proprietary SAN/NAS arrays | Distributed Ceph NVMe block (RBD) & S3 object storage (RGW) |
| Kubernetes Offering | None (customer must self-install and maintain everything) | Turn-key upstream Kubernetes clusters via Magnum & Cluster API |
| Database Services (DBaaS) | None (unmanaged customer burden) | HA CloudNativePG Postgres 16, Redis Sentinel & Percona Galera |
| Developer Experience | Basic IPMI/SSH access or clunky proprietary control panels | Modern web portal, full REST API, and native Terraform providers |
| Software Licensing Costs | Exorbitant per-core VMware or proprietary licenses eating margins | 100% Open Standards with zero hypervisor tax |
From Raw Hardware to Sovereign Cloud in 4 Steps
A battle-tested deployment methodology that turns your physical infrastructure into an operational cloud without disruption.
Hardware Audit
We inspect your bare-metal server specs, NVMe drive layout, and top-of-rack leaf-spine network topology to design an optimized compute, storage, and networking split.
Zero-Touch Bootstrap
Automated containerized deployment of OpenStack Kolla microservices and Kubernetes cluster nodes onto your bare metal with immutable configuration management.
PaaS & Storage Pooling
Initialization of high-performance Ceph NVMe storage pools, OVN network overlays, CloudNativePG operators, Redis Sentinel, and Apache APISIX gateways.
Self-Service Launch
Provisioning of your Web Cloud Console (portal), customer tenant accounts, Terraform provider access, and automated FinOps metering for immediate client onboarding.
Have Hardware? Turn It Into an Enterprise Sovereign Cloud Today
Stop competing on price in commoditized server rentals. Deliver the upstream Kubernetes, DBaaS, and GitOps automation your clients are asking for—on your own sovereign hardware.