Stakater Cloud Orchestrator


The Hyperscaler Engine for Service Providers




Built on Red Hat OpenShift

Stakater



Founded 2016

10 years in business

Global Team — 8 Countries

Sweden, Czech Republic, Austria, Spain, Pakistan, Netherlands, Australia, Vietnam

Stakater Cloud

Runs in production on Red Hat OpenShift

Red Hat Partnership

Premier Partner

Specialized Partner — Container Management

Master Services Agreement — only one in Sweden for 5+ years

Partner since 2018

What We've Built



Cloud

Stakater Cloud

Our managed OpenShift cloud

Production workloads. Paying customers.

Open Source

Reloader

24B+ downloads · 9.9k stars

Forecastle

IngressMonitorController

+ many more

Red Hat Certified

Multi-Tenant Operator

Enterprise multi-tenancy for OpenShift



Open source, commercial, and managed — running in production for years.

The Gap



Infrastructure: Solved

✓ OpenShift Container Platform
✓ OpenShift Virtualization
✓ OpenShift Data Foundation

The runtime layer is mature.

The Commercial Layer: Missing

? Multi-tenant management
? Self-service portal
? Metering and billing
? White-label customer experience


The infrastructure is ready. The commercial layer to sell it — isn't.

How We Got Here



OCT 2024

Stakater Cloud launched — Managed OpenShift on Red Hat OpenShift as datacenter OS

MARKET SHIFT

CSPs and MSPs moving away from VMware — adopting OpenShift Virtualization

DEMAND

Multiple CSPs and MSPs asked us to provide our customer-facing platform layer

THE GAP

Infrastructure solved — but no commercial layer for self-service, tenancy, billing, or XaaS

VALIDATED

We had already built this layer for Stakater Cloud

TODAY

Decoupled and productized it → Stakater Cloud Orchestrator powers Stakater Cloud + external CSPs

Solved

Red Hat OpenShift

Runs the infrastructure

+

New

Cloud Orchestrator

Runs the commercial layer



Together — a complete cloud offering

Cloud Orchestrator
The Platform Layer



Cloud Product

Self-service portal Service catalog Cost transparency SLA-backed plans Custom branding
↑

Cloud Orchestrator

Multi-tenancy Governance API-first automation Cost management White-label control plane
↑

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift Container Platform OpenShift Virtualization OpenShift Data Foundation + anything through OpenShift

Architecture


Configuration Layer
Single Source of Truth
Tenant management, service definitions, policies, and identity.
End users interact here — never with infrastructure directly.
Clusters connect in
Execution Layer
OpenShift Hosting Clusters
One or many OpenShift clusters, potentially provisioning external infrastructure. Enforce rules locally. Run workloads.
Independent from each other — no lateral exposure.
✓ Security by separation
✓ Multi-cluster independence
✓ Scale without rearchitecting
✓ Sovereign-ready by design
Configuration Layer — KCP
KCP Workspaces
KCP Keycloak Portal Service Catalog FinOps Operator
Organizations → Workspaces → Projects.
Declarative desired state synced to hosting clusters.
Outbound sync (cluster → KCP)
Execution Layer — OpenShift
OpenShift Hosting Clusters
Cluster A
MTO

Enforces tenant rules locally

Cluster B
MTO

Enforces tenant rules locally

Cluster N
MTO

Enforces tenant rules locally

Clusters are not routable to each other. Each connects independently into KCP.
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What End Users See


A white-label self-service cloud portal.



Service Catalog

Browse and provision VMs, clusters, databases, custom services

Resource Management

Start, stop, scale, monitor — full lifecycle control

Cost Overview

Usage breakdown, estimated spend, historical records

Access & Audit

Organization roles, activity log, compliance trail



Their brand. Their domain. The customer never sees the infrastructure underneath.

Why This Wins



Secure

Separation by architecture, not policy. Tenants never touch infrastructure.

Scalable

Add clusters without rearchitecting. Linear growth.

Sovereign-Ready

On-prem, air-gapped, white-labeled. No hyperscaler dependency.




Governance by design — not bolted on after.

Better Together



What Red Hat Gains

✓ A platform layer that turns OpenShift into a complete cloud product

✓ OpenShift Virtualization becomes the de-facto choice for cloud 3.0

✓ Covers the vCloud Director gap — and serves greenfield customers

What Stakater Gains

✓ Enterprise co-sell at the scale this product was built for

✓ A joint story that validates the product at the highest level

✓ In production today — not a prototype

Who We Serve Together



Telco

Sovereign / national cloud Edge & 5G platform services Replace VMware-based platforms

CSP

Build and sell cloud services Offer XaaS — VMs, OpenShift clusters, DBs

MSP

Manage and operate customer environments Standardize and scale operations

Enterprise

Build internal cloud (IDP)

Government

Build sovereign cloud

Defining the
Next-Generation Cloud




Red Hat OpenShift

+

Stakater Cloud Orchestrator