Stakater Cloud Orchestrator


The Hyperscaler Engine for Service Providers




Works with any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes

Stakater



Founded 2016

10 years in Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure

Global Team — 8 Countries

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

Stakater Cloud

Our production cloud — runs on the same stack we sell. Live since Oct 2024.



Open Source

Reloader

24B+ downloads · 9.9k GitHub stars

Operator

Multi-Tenant Operator

Enterprise multi-tenancy for any Kubernetes distribution

Compatible with

Red Hat OpenShift SUSE Rancher Upstream Kubernetes

The Gap



Infrastructure: Solved

✓ Kubernetes (any CNCF distribution)
✓ Virtualization (KubeVirt / Harvester)
✓ Storage (Rook/Ceph, Longhorn, ODF)

The runtime layer is mature and battle-tested.

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 — multi-tenant, self-service, metered, billing-integrated

MARKET SHIFT

CSPs and MSPs moving away from VMware — needing a cloud operating model above Kubernetes

DEMAND

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

THE GAP

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

TODAY

Decoupled and productized → Cloud Orchestrator runs above any Kubernetes, powering cloud businesses worldwide

Solved

Enterprise Kubernetes

OpenShift · Rancher · Upstream

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
↑

Enterprise Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift SUSE Rancher / RKE2 Upstream Kubernetes + any CNCF distribution

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
Kubernetes Hosting Clusters
One or many clusters — any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes. 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 — Any Kubernetes
Kubernetes 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.

Works With Your Stack



Kubernetes

Red Hat OpenShift SUSE Rancher / RKE2 Vanilla Kubernetes

Virtualization

OpenShift Virtualization Harvester (SUSE) KubeVirt

Storage

OpenShift Data Foundation Longhorn (SUSE) Rook / Ceph


Cloud Orchestrator sits above the distribution — not tied to one.

Who We Serve



Telco

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

CSP

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

MSP

Manage customer environments Standardize and scale operations

Enterprise

Build internal cloud (IDP)

Government

Build sovereign cloud

Defining the
Next-Generation Cloud




Enterprise Kubernetes

+

Stakater Cloud Orchestrator


OpenShift · Rancher · Upstream Kubernetes — your choice