A private cloud your developers actually want to use

edgeContinuum is a private cloud platform for the OpenStack you already operate: managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and virtual machines as self-service, with the guardrails your platform team defines.

Self-service with quotas, projects and rolesRuns on your OpenStack: no rip and replaceFull sovereignty: your hardware, your data, your perimeter
How your teams drive it
Web consolepoint & click
APIautomate
Terraformdeclare
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Region Adata center
Region Bdata center
Edge siteautonomous
Your OpenStack, shaped into regions and zones

Replace the ticket queue with a console

Your infrastructure is capable; the experience around it is the bottleneck. Developers wait on tickets, platform engineers hand-carve VMs, and every team builds its own path to Kubernetes. edgeContinuum gives every team a console and an API instead: they create clusters, databases and VMs themselves, inside guardrails you define, and the platform keeps everything in its desired state.

For developers

A cluster, database or VM in minutes, through the console, the API or Terraform. Kubeconfig download and ship.

For platform teams

Projects, quotas and roles set the boundaries once; desired-state automation handles upgrades, scaling and recovery continuously.

For the organization

Hardware, network and data never leave your perimeter, and the platform runs anywhere from SaaS to fully air-gapped.

The real cost of the status quo

Without a self-service private cloud, the pressure finds other exits: teams swipe credit cards on public cloud (and your data leaves with them), platform engineers burn quarters building an internal developer platform from scratch, and every infrastructure request ages in a queue. The result is shadow IT on the outside and toil on the inside.

A cloud management platform for OpenStack closes both gaps at once: developers get the public-cloud experience inside the perimeter, and the platform team gets guardrails and desired-state automation instead of a backlog. The OpenStack self-service platform architecture guide sets out that layer, component by component, for a deployment you already run.

Private cloud Kubernetes, on demand

The request that exposes whether you have a private cloud or just virtualization is a developer asking for a Kubernetes cluster. On most on-premises estates that is a ticket, a sizing conversation and a week. Private cloud Kubernetes means it is a form: pick a region, a control plane model and node pools, and get a kubeconfig, inside the quota the project already carries. Databases and VMs work the same way, which is what makes it on-demand private cloud rather than a faster ticket queue. The users, projects and quotas guide covers the guardrail layer this depends on, and the databases on OpenStack guide the database catalog behind it.

Built on the infrastructure you already run

Native, deep OpenStack integration: connect any number of infrastructures (data centers, private clouds, remote sites) and shape them into your own regions and availability zones. Declarative foundations (Cluster API, Crossplane) keep everything in its desired state with no configuration drift, and autonomous regions keep remote sites serving even when links drop. Distributing the same platform across many small facilities is a different job: that is our edge computing platform.

Managed Kubernetes

CNCF-conformant clusters with autoscaling node pools, in-place upgrades and dedicated or hosted control planes.

Managed PostgreSQL

Provisioning, high availability and lifecycle handled: teams connect and ship.

Virtual machines

Catalogs, networks, routers and firewall rules, managed like public cloud.

App marketplace

Helm charts, containers and your internal apps as one-click products for every team.

See your OpenStack become a cloud

Connect a lab infrastructure on the free trial, or book a call and we’ll demo the full loop: connect, curate, provision, operate.

Frequently asked questions

What is a private cloud platform?
A private cloud platform is the software layer that makes infrastructure you own behave like a public cloud: a self-service catalogue, an API, tenancy with quotas, and managed services that are provisioned and maintained for you rather than installed by hand. Virtualization alone is not a private cloud, which is the gap most teams hit. edgeContinuum provides that layer on the OpenStack you already operate, delivering private cloud Kubernetes, managed PostgreSQL and VMs to your teams inside organizations, projects and quotas you define.
Can our developers get on-demand private cloud resources without tickets?
That is the point of it. A developer picks a region, a cluster shape or a database size and gets it in minutes from the console, the API or Terraform, inside the quota their project carries. The platform team sets the guardrails once, as roles, quotas and a curated catalogue, instead of approving each request. Those roles are composed from individual permissions and granted to a user or a group, across an organization or inside one project: how identity and access works.
Does it replace our hypervisors or storage?
No. It builds on the OpenStack infrastructure you already operate and adds the managed-services and self-service layer on top: no rip and replace.
What skills does our team need?
Far fewer than operating raw OpenStack plus DIY Kubernetes. The platform automates lifecycle end to end, and the console removes most day-to-day CLI work.
Can we run it disconnected or in classified environments?
Yes. In the on-premises model the entire platform, control plane included, runs inside your perimeter, down to fully air-gapped sites.
How does this compare to building our own platform on OpenStack?
That path works and takes a platform team years to harden. edgeContinuum is that layer, already built: multi-tenant, desired-state driven, and delivered with the operational experience baked in.