Managed OpenShift,
Ready in 15 Minutes.
Hosted in Europe.
Stop assembling infrastructure from scratch. Stakater Cloud delivers a fully managed, production-ready OpenShift platform — with everything pre-wired and operated by experts. You ship. We run the platform.
Two ways to get a
production-ready OpenShift
Start with managed infrastructure. Add the full developer platform when you're ready. No assembly required either way.
Managed OpenShift
Your dedicated OpenShift cluster, hosted on our European infrastructure. We handle everything. You use it.
A fully dedicated OpenShift cluster provisioned in our Netherlands data center. Stakater manages all upgrades, lifecycle operations, and platform health — so your team never has to.
- Dedicated single-tenant OpenShift cluster
- Full lifecycle management by Stakater SRE
- Automated upgrades & patch management
- Multi-AZ high availability
- 100% EU data residency (Netherlands)
- GDPR, DORA & NIS2 compliant infrastructure
- Premium & Standard support tiers
SAAP
Managed OpenShift plus a complete, pre-wired developer platform. Everything your team needs to ship — managed by us.
Everything in Managed OpenShift, plus GitOps, CI/CD, secrets management, multi-tenancy, monitoring, logging, backup and a developer portal. All pre-integrated, all managed.
- Everything in Managed OpenShift
- GitOps with managed ArgoCD
- CI/CD with Tekton + pipeline catalog
- Secrets management with HashiCorp Vault
- Multi-tenancy with Stakater MTO
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
- Backup & restore with Velero
- Developer portal with Backstage
- Artifact store with Nexus OSS
From zero to production
in three steps
No lengthy procurement. No platform team required. No infrastructure setup.
Book a call
Tell us your use case, team size and compliance requirements. We scope the right cluster configuration for you — usually takes 30 minutes.
We provision your cluster
Your dedicated OpenShift cluster is provisioned in our Netherlands data center. Stakater SRE handles everything end to end.
Start shipping
Your cluster is ready in under 15 minutes. Deploy your first workload the same day. Stakater handles upgrades, operations and incidents — forever.
Not just a cloud.
A complete platform.
AWS gives you building blocks. We give you a finished platform, managed by OpenShift experts.
100% EU Data Residency
Your data never leaves Europe. Hosted in our Netherlands data center — fully compliant with GDPR, DORA and NIS2 out of the box.
Start at the PaaS Layer
Hyperscalers start at raw infrastructure. We start at the platform. No months of setup, no platform team needed, no assembly required.
Red Hat Premier Partner
We are Red Hat's Premier Partner and Container Management Specialists — the highest level of OpenShift expertise available in Europe.
Up to 40% Lower Cost
Predictable monthly pricing. No egress fees, no surprise bills. Up to 40% cheaper than running OpenShift on AWS, Azure or GCP.
Enterprise Security Built-In
Hardened defaults, RHACS, certificate management, Vault for secrets, audit logging, RBAC — all configured and managed from day one.
Expert Day-2 Operations
Our SRE team handles upgrades, incident response, capacity planning and architecture guidance — forever. No internal platform team required.
Stakater Cloud vs the alternatives
The real alternative isn't AWS — it's spending 12–18 months building this yourself with an internal platform team.
| Feature | Stakater Cloud | ROSA / ARO | DIY on AWS / Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Managed OpenShift cluster | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| EU data residency | ✓ | Partial | Partial |
| GitOps pre-configured (ArgoCD) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| CI/CD pre-configured (Tekton) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Secrets management (Vault) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multi-tenancy (MTO) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Full monitoring + logging | ✓ | Basic | ✗ |
| No hyperscaler lock-in | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Predictable EU pricing | ✓ | Partial | ✗ |
| Time to first workload | < 15 min | Days–weeks | Months |
Built for European organisations
running on Kubernetes
We focus on three customer types so we can serve them exceptionally well.
MSPs & ISVs
Deliver managed software services on top of a fully managed OpenShift platform — without operating the infrastructure yourself. Focus on your product, not the platform underneath it.
SaaS Companies
Stop spending engineering cycles managing Kubernetes. Get a production-ready OpenShift platform your developers can use from day one — and ship product faster.
Regulated Enterprises
EU data residency, GDPR, DORA and NIS2 compliance out of the box. Your infrastructure meets regulatory requirements from day one — no compliance guesswork.
What our customers say
"The Kubernetes experts at Stakater have a deep and thorough understanding of modern container platforms, along with extensive experience in cloud-native and microservices-based applications.
"We're using the App Agility Platform to convert applications to microservices. As a result, we're consistently getting to market 80% faster with 60% reduced total cost of ownership.
"I am writing to express our sincere appreciation for the outstanding services provided by Stakater during the establishment of our OpenShift cluster on bare metal.
Built for European compliance
Every cluster is hosted in the Netherlands. Your data never leaves Europe. Our platform meets GDPR, DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 requirements from day one.
Ready to stop managing infrastructure?
Book a 30-minute call with our OpenShift experts. We'll scope the right solution for your team and have you up and running in days — not months.