Enterprise-grade Kubernetes operations for the German Mittelstand.
Secure. Sovereign. Scalable.
< DSGVO-native • Open Source • Infrastructure-Agnostic >
Kubernetes is the industry standard for container orchestration, but requires deep expertise to operate securely
Germany has a severe shortage of DevOps/Platform engineers (avg. 6+ months to fill a senior role)
Cloud-native compliance (GDPR, ISO27001, SOC2) adds complexity that most companies cannot manage alone
A fully managed, security-first Kubernetes platform built for German enterprises.
Abstracts Kubernetes complexity behind a simple management UI (Rancher)
each customer gets their own isolated cluster(s)
provisioning, monitoring, security, upgrades, backups, disaster recovery
built for German data sovereignty requirements, SOC2/ISO27001 path
RKE2 + Rancher — lightweight, FIPS-compliant, intuitive management UI
Prometheus + Grafana + Loki — full-stack metrics, dashboards & log aggregation
Cilium + Kyverno + Falco — network policies, admission control & runtime defense
Company size: 50-2,000 employees
Revenue: €10M-500M/year
Industry: Manufacturing, Logistics, FinTech, HealthTech, SaaS, eCommerce
Technical maturity: Low to medium — small IT team, no dedicated platform engineers
Current state: Running VMs or early container adoption
Decision maker: CTO, VP Engineering, IT Director, Head of Infrastructure
Budget holder: CTO or CFO
Buying trigger: Failed K8s migration, cannot hire, compliance requirement, scaling pain
Market size (managed K8s Germany): ~€2.5B by 2027
Growth rate: 25-30% CAGR
Key driver: Digital transformation in Mittelstand
Regulatory tailwind: GDPR, NIS2, DORA driving managed security demand
Talent shortage: 137,000 unfilled IT positions in Germany (Bitkom 2025)
Managed K8s, monitoring, GitOps, basic policies
Full stack: security, monitoring, backups, policies, HA
Full stack + advanced monitoring, compliance controls
Full stack + dedicated support resources, SLA
Full stack + offline support, registry mirroring
Included
Business hours (9-18 CET)
P1: 4h, P2: 8h, P3: 24h, P4: 48h
€800/month
Extended (7-22 CET)
P1: 1h, P2: 4h, P3: 8h, P4: 24h
€2,500/month
24/7
P1: 15min, P2: 1h, P3: 4h, P4: 8h
€262K
67-month avg. customer lifetime at 1.5% churn
€5K — €9K
1.7 — 5.3 month payback period
83% — 93%
Near-zero marginal cost per cluster
Months 0-12
Founder-Led Sales
Direct outreach, content marketing, tech community. ~1 customer/month.
Months 13-24
Scalable Marketing
SEO, LinkedIn ads, partnerships, conferences. 5-6 new customers/month.
Months 25-36
Growth Engine
Full sales team, SDRs, partner channel. 7-8 new customers/month.
▸ Germany-first: Data sovereignty, German support, GDPR-native, GmbH structure
▸ Infrastructure-agnostic: Not locked to a single cloud — supports Hetzner, bare metal, on-prem, multi-cloud
▸ Non-technical friendly: Designed for companies without Kubernetes expertise
▸ Open-source stack: No vendor lock-in, built on proven CNCF projects (RKE2, Cilium, ArgoCD, Prometheus)
▸ Security by default: Kyverno policies, Falco runtime security, network isolation — included, not upsold
▸ Hard multi-tenancy: True cluster isolation, not shared namespace approaches
SysEleven (Berlin) — Established, German, OpenStack + K8s. Expensive, complex onboarding
Plusserver (Cologne) — Large, enterprise sales. Legacy brand, slow innovation
IONOS Cloud (1&1) — Brand recognition, scale. Generic cloud, not K8s specialized
Loodse/Kubermatic — Strong tech, open source. Acquired by Kubermatic, enterprise focus
AWS EKS / Azure AKS / GKE — Still requires K8s expertise, vendor lock-in, data sovereignty concerns
Managed OpenShift (Red Hat) — Expensive (€50K+/year licensing), complex
Platform.sh / Render / Railway — PaaS, not full K8s, limited flexibility
Provisioning, monitoring, upgrades, backups, and decommissioning — all automated via GitOps.
Prometheus metrics, Grafana dashboards, Loki logs, Alertmanager routing with PagerDuty.
Velero daily backups. RTO <4h full cluster. Multi-region DR. 30-day retention.
€100,000-150,000 initial. Break-even at Month 4-5.
3-year cumulative: €€3,350,000. ROI: 2,100-3,350%.
Even at 50% fewer customers: profitable from Year 1, 38% EBITDA margin by Year 3.
Secure. Sovereign. Scalable.
Built by engineers, for engineers — made in Germany.