Why Modern Leaders
Choose Okustera
Built for Datacenter Owners escaping the 15% margin commodity trap, CEOs securing European sovereignty with 0€ egress fees, and CTOs demanding upstream Kubernetes with Terraform GitOps.
Turn Bare Metal Into High-Margin Sovereign Cloud ARR
Datacenters across Europe possess enterprise servers, high-speed leaf-spine switches, and enterprise NVMe storage. Yet selling raw bare-metal servers or simple static VPS yields only 10% to 20% margins in a commoditized price war. Meanwhile, Broadcom's drastic VMware price increases have decimated hosting profitability. Okustera solves this by deploying a production cloud operating layer directly onto your bare metal in under 4 days.
| Economic Dimension | Traditional Dedicated Server / Colo | Bare Metal Powered by Okustera |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Revenue per Node | Flat $150 – $250 / month (fixed single-tenant rental) | $650 – $1,200+ / month (multi-tenant vCPU, RAM, NVMe IOPS, DBaaS & AI) |
| Gross Profit Margin | 10% – 20% (low-margin commodity pricing) | 65% – 80% (value-added managed software services) |
| Hypervisor & OS Licensing | Exorbitant per-core VMware / Broadcom licensing costs | 0€ Hypervisor Tax (100% Upstream Open Standards: Linux KVM + Ceph) |
| Customer Provisioning | Manual ticket-based or slow OS installs (hours to days) | Instant self-service via Cloud Portal & Terraform (under 60s) |
| Monetization Layers | Raw compute only (no storage or DB upsell) | Compute + Ceph S3 Storage + CloudNativePG DBaaS + Valkey + AI Inference |
| Usage Metering & Billing | Manual invoicing, rigid monthly contracts | Automated real-time FinOps metering via OpenStack CloudKitty |
How We Deploy On Your Racks in 4 Days
We inspect your server fleet specs, NVMe layouts, and leaf-spine network topology.
Automated deployment of containerized OpenStack Kolla services & KVM hypervisors.
Pooling Ceph NVMe block/S3 storage, OVN VPC overlays, and CloudNativePG DBaaS.
Your branded Web Console, Terraform credentials, and CloudKitty billing go live.
Strategic Cloud Independence. Total Regulatory Immunity.
European enterprise leaders face three critical board-level risks with US hyperscalers: extraterritorial data surveillance (US CLOUD Act and FISA Section 702), uncontrolled data egress penalties ($0.09–$0.12/GB), and corporate IP leakage into public AI models. Okustera establishes an unassailable sovereign perimeter.
Legal Sovereignty & NIS2
100% European jurisdiction. Zero exposure to US extraterritorial subpoenas. Engineered to comply with the EU NIS2 Directive, DORA, and GDPR Article 9.
0€ Egress Bandwidth Fees
Hyperscalers charge punitive fees to access your own data. Okustera provides flat, predictable infrastructure pricing with 0€ egress tax.
Private In-VPC AI Foundry
Run foundation models (DeepSeek-R1, Llama 3.3) inside isolated tenant VPCs. Zero prompt sharing, zero token markup, and complete intellectual property protection.
Anti-Lock-In by Design
Built on vanilla CNCF Kubernetes, OpenStack, and S3 APIs. No proprietary SDKs. You retain full freedom to migrate or adapt workloads at any time.
| Strategic Governance Dimension | US Hyperscalers (AWS / Azure / GCP) | Okustera Sovereign Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Legal Jurisdiction | Subject to US CLOUD Act & FISA 702 extraterritorial warrants | 100% European National Jurisdiction (Zero Foreign Subpoena Exposure) |
| Data Residency & Telemetry | Telemetry, metadata, and support planes routinely export to US systems | 100% In-Country Guaranteed (Compute, Storage, Keys & Telemetry) |
| Data Egress Penalties | Up to $0.09 – $0.12 per GB (punitive data extraction taxes) | 0€ Egress Fees (Unrestricted data mobility & flat pricing) |
| AI Prompt & Model Privacy | Shared multi-tenant endpoints; risk of model retraining on customer data | Isolated In-VPC vLLM Serving (Zero prompt leakage, customer-owned weights) |
| Compliance Audit Verification | Opaque black-box infrastructure and complex shared responsibility | 19/19 Sovereign Controls Passed with Automated In-Cluster Audit Tool |
Pure Upstream Standards. Declarative Infrastructure as Code.
Engineered for engineering leaders who reject proprietary black boxes and manual click-ops. Okustera delivers un-forked upstream CNCF Kubernetes v1.32+, hardware-isolated OVN Geneve VPCs, distributed Ceph NVMe (<180µs latency), and private vLLM AI inference—100% automated with Terraform.
Upstream CNCF Kubernetes
Managed via Cluster API & Magnum. Cilium eBPF CNI with transparent WireGuard node mesh encryption and vTPM 2.0.
Software-Defined VPCs (OVN)
Geneve encapsulation overlays, Octavia L4/L7 load balancing, BGP Anycast routing, and NetBird Sovereign WireGuard ZTNA.
Distributed Ceph NVMe & S3
Triple-replicated NVMe storage with Cinder LUKS AES-256 envelope encryption. 100% AWS S3-compatible Rados Gateway (RGW).
Private vLLM & Qdrant DBaaS
OpenAI SDK compatible (/v1/chat/completions), dynamic Multi-LoRA switching, RayService auto-scale, and on-disk NVMe vector search.
CloudNativePG PostgreSQL HA
Postgres 16 HA with Barman continuous WAL archiving, sub-10s failover, and Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR) to in-country S3 buckets.
100% Declarative Terraform
Official okustera/okustera and OpenStack providers. K8s Pod Workload Identity bindings for zero static secrets in CI/CD.
# 1. Provision Upstream CNCF Kubernetes v1.32 Cluster via Magnum
terraform {
required_providers {
okustera = {
source = "okustera/okustera"
version = "~> 1.0.0"
}
}
}
provider "okustera" {
endpoint = "https://portal.okustera.com/api/v1"
api_token = var.okustera_api_token
tenant_id = var.okustera_tenant_id
}
resource "okustera_kubernetes_cluster" "prod_k8s" {
name = "sovereign-k8s-prod"
cluster_template_id = "upstream-k8s-v1.32"
master_count = 3
node_count = 6
network_config {
cni = "cilium"
wireguard_mesh = true
pod_cidr = "10.244.0.0/16"
}
}Experience the Sovereign Cloud Difference
Whether you are monetizing bare metal, safeguarding enterprise data under EU law, or architecting upstream Kubernetes—Okustera is your sovereign foundation.