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 Cilium WireGuard mesh encryption.
- Production DBaaS (Postgres HA, Valkey 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 Valkey 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, supporting sovereign cloud mandates and European data privacy requirements.
- 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, Valkey 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, Valkey 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.
The Okustera Platform & OMC Architecture Explained
Transparent disambiguation of the commercial platform, the open-standard cloud operating system engine, and upstream open source foundations.
Okustera (Okustera Cloud)
The enterprise distribution and sovereign cloud offering. Provides government agencies, enterprises, and datacenter operators with a turnkey cloud portal, managed DBaaS, Sovereign AI Model Foundry, unified billing, and 24/7 sovereign operational support.
- Turnkey Cloud Console (portal.okustera.com)
- Multi-tenant governance & CloudKitty billing
- Sovereign AI inference blueprints & vLLM runtime
OMC (Open Cloud Operating System)
The underlying open cloud operating system specification and automation framework. Orchestrates bare-metal nodes, Ceph NVMe storage, and OVN virtual networking into isolated tenant VPCs and Kubernetes clusters via the omc CLI and Terraform provider.
- Declarative
terraform-provider-okustera - OVN Geneve network overlays & VPC isolation
- Magnum & CAPI upstream Kubernetes provisioning
Upstream Vendor-Neutral Foundation
100% built on open-source industry standards: Linux KVM, OpenStack 2024.1 (Caracal), CNCF Kubernetes, Ceph NVMe, CloudNativePG, and Apache APISIX. Zero proprietary code forks, eliminating vendor lock-in and avoiding VMware/Broadcom licensing costs.
- Vanilla OpenStack & CNCF Kubernetes APIs
- 100% AWS S3 API compatibility via Ceph RGW
- OpenAI-compatible endpoints (/v1/chat/completions)
Standards Conformance & Third-Party Audit Readiness
Okustera is engineered to meet strict European sovereign cloud mandates and provide partner datacenters with an audit-ready compliance foundation.
Hardened Security
Multi-layer zero-trust isolation across compute (gVisor/KVM), remote access (NetBird Sovereign WireGuard ZTNA), networking (OVN Geneve, Cilium WireGuard mesh), and storage (LUKS AES-256 envelope encryption).
CNCF Conformance
Deploys unmodified upstream Kubernetes v1.32.2 via Cluster API and OpenStack Magnum. Passes standard CNCF sonobuoy conformance with Cilium eBPF WireGuard mesh and Ceph CSI.
EU Sovereignty & NIS2
Engineered for EU sovereign cloud environments and the NIS2 Directive. Zero external third-party telemetry, Barbican KMS envelope encryption, and cryptographic key destruction on teardown.
Automated Audit Tool
Integrated continuous compliance test suite (okustera-audit) evaluates 19 sovereign technical controls against live cluster state, scoring a 100% Sovereign Compliance Score.
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.