Stakater Cloud Orchestrator


The Hyperscaler Engine for Service Providers




Built on SUSE Rancher

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 since Oct 2024

SUSE Partnership

Rancher Partner

SUSE One Partner Program — Kubernetes specialist

Co-sell motion through SUSE Rancher channel

Rancher expertise since 2020

What We've Built



Cloud

Stakater Cloud

Our managed cloud

Production workloads. Paying customers.

Open Source

Reloader

24B+ downloads · 9.9k stars

Forecastle

IngressMonitorController

+ many more

Kubernetes-Native

Multi-Tenant Operator

Enterprise multi-tenancy for any Kubernetes



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

The Gap



Infrastructure: Solved

✓ SUSE Rancher / RKE2
✓ Harvester (Virtualization)
✓ Longhorn (Storage)

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 cloud running Kubernetes as datacenter OS

MARKET SHIFT

CSPs and MSPs moving away from VMware — adopting Rancher Harvester as infrastructure

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 → Cloud Orchestrator powers Stakater Cloud + external CSPs and MSPs

Solved

SUSE Rancher

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
↑

SUSE Rancher

Rancher / RKE2 Harvester (Virtualization) Longhorn (Storage) + anything on Rancher

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
Rancher Hosting Clusters
One or many Rancher/RKE2 clusters. 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 — Rancher / RKE2
Rancher 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 SUSE Gains

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

✓ Rancher + Harvester becomes the de-facto choice for service providers

✓ Covers the vCloud Director gap — and serves greenfield cloud builders

What Stakater Gains

✓ Co-sell through the SUSE Rancher channel at enterprise scale

✓ A joint story that validates the product with the SUSE ecosystem

✓ 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, 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




SUSE Rancher

+

Stakater Cloud Orchestrator