Telco & Connectivity
Built for networks that cannot fail. kMetal enables telecom and connectivity providers to deliver carrier-grade infrastructure with the resilience, automation, and scale modern services demand.
kMETAL ENTERPRISE PLATFORM
Run More Infrastructure. With Less Infrastructure.
kMetal helps organisations reduce infrastructure costs, eliminate hypervisor licensing, and operate Kubernetes at scale without increasing operational complexity. Built for teams running cloud, on-premises, bare metal, and sovereign infrastructure.
WHAT ORGANISATIONS ACHIEVE WITH kMETAL
97%
Reduction in control plane machines
Up to 65%
Reduction in operational overhead
Zero
Additional hypervisor licences required
~20s
To provision a production-ready tenant cluster
THE BUSINESS CASE
Why Infrastructure Costs Grow Often Faster Than Your Business.
Most Kubernetes environments become more expensive as clusters, teams, and workloads grow. kMetal removes three major sources of operational and infrastructure waste.
The Control Plane Tax
Every tenant cluster normally requires 3 dedicated machines for its control plane, doing almost nothing but overhead. For 30 clusters, that is 90 machines sitting largely idle.
kMetal runs all 30 control planes as pods on a shared management cluster.
97%
fewer control plane machines
The Hypervisor Layer
Strong tenant isolation traditionally requires a full hypervisor stack, VMware, Nutanix, or similar, with its own licensing costs, management tools, and dedicated operational overhead.
kMetal uses kernel-native KVM for compute isolation and OVN for networking — built in, no separate product required.
Zero
additional hypervisor licences
Fragmented Fleet Management
Upgrades, provisioning, and policies managed separately per cluster. As the fleet grows, every cluster becomes a snowflake. The operational burden scales with the fleet, until it breaks.
kMetal unifies fleet management, upgrades, and policy enforcement under one platform, managed through the Kubernetes API.
~20s
to provision a new tenant cluster
kMetal tackles all three at once — on physical servers you already own.
BUSINESS IMPACT
What Improves After kMetal?
kMetal doesn't just simplify Kubernetes operations. It changes how infrastructure scales across your organisation.
Run more environments on fewer machines while eliminating unnecessary control plane and hypervisor overhead.
Reduce infrastructure waste
Provision production-ready environments in seconds instead of waiting days or weeks for manual infrastructure requests.
Accelerate time to value
Free platform engineers from repetitive operational tasks so they can focus on strategic initiatives.
Do more without adding headcount
Add customers, workloads, and teams without operational complexity increasing at the same rate.
Scale without operational drag
THE PLATFORM
One platform. Every team. Any infrastructure.
Run more on less
97% fewer control plane machines. No hypervisor licence. Multiple teams share infrastructure with complete isolation. The hardware bill and the licensing bill both shrink – without limiting what any team can do.
Deliver faster
Teams provision their own Kubernetes environments in ~20 seconds – without raising a ticket or waiting on a platform engineer. Self-service within administrator-defined guardrails. The bottleneck disappears.
Govern everything
Centralised access logging, audit trails, quota management, and monitoring across every tenant cluster – from one control point. One answer to every compliance, security, and spend question.
Stay independent
Runs on bare metal, on-premises, any cloud, or a combination. No cloud provider account required. No vendor lock-in. No architectural decisions made on someone else's terms.
IN PRODUCTION
Used by organisations where infrastructure failure is not an option.
kMetal runs in production at organisations where scale, security, and reliability are non-negotiable. The demands of these environments shaped how the platform was built.
AI & HPC Infrastructure
Purpose-built for the AI era. Deploy and operate GPU-intensive infrastructure at scale while maximising performance, efficiency, and reliability.
Public Sector & Defense
Trusted in environments where security, sovereignty, and resilience are non-negotiable.
Cloud & Managed Service Providers
Deliver infrastructure services with greater speed, efficiency, and confidence. kMetal helps providers scale operations while maintaining enterprise-grade reliability.
Case studies available on request.
INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE · MADE IN ITALY WITH EUROPEAN SOVEREIGNTY
Sovereignty is the goal. Resilience is how you get there.
kMetal runs on infrastructure you own and control, with no hyperscaler dependency, no vendor lock-in, and no external governance over your data or workloads. The goal is practical: reduce dependency on infrastructure you do not control, improve your ability to withstand disruption, and operate under your own terms.
EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework
EU Open Source Strategy
EU Cloud and AI Development Act
No Hyperscaler Dependency
Your data. Your hardware. Your governance. No AWS ToS. No US CLOUD Act exposure.
No Vendor Lock-In
Run on any infrastructure. Switch providers. Federate environments. No architectural lock-in.
European Procurement Ready
Open-source foundation, infrastructure independence, European company. Built to score well against the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework's 48 criteria.
“Trusted by Mistral — Europe's leading AI company — and the US Navy.”
THE CLEAR CHOICE
Why Organisations Choose kMetal
kMetal combines infrastructure efficiency, operational consistency, and platform automation into a single Kubernetes operating model designed for long-term growth.
Reduce infrastructure costs
Provision environments in seconds
Scale without operational complexity
Eliminate hypervisor licensing overhead
Increase platform team productivity
Maintain control of infrastructure and governance
WHAT YOU GET
A platform and a partnership
Every kMetal deployment includes Clastix Care from day one, SLA-backed support, direct engineer access, and monthly office hours. Not an add-on. Included.
kMetal Platform
OptionalThe production-ready Kubernetes platform.
- Hosted control planes, pods, not dedicated machines
- KVM + OVN embedded isolation, no hypervisor licence
- Multi-tenant cluster management with quota enforcement
- Self-service provisioning, Basic, Standard, Expert tiers
- Multi-cloud and bare metal support
- Unified fleet management and upgrades
- Centralised access logging and monitoring
- Control plane backup and restore
Ongoing Support
IncludedClastix Care SLA-backed support.
- SLA with defined response times by severity
- Private channel direct access to Clastix engineers
- Monthly office hours with the product team
- Upgrade support and stable release guidance
- Feature prioritisation input
- Architecture review for your specific deployment
One-Off Service
OptionalClastix Ready SLA-backed support.
- Installation and configuration in your environment
- Architecture design for your specific multi-tenancy use case
- Team training and knowledge transfer
- Custom datastore configuration and migration
- Team training and knowledge transfer
- Production readiness review
FROM TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES TO BUSINESS IMPACT
What kMetal enables — for the engineers who run it and the leaders who approve it.
Each capability is described twice: technically for the engineers who will operate it, and in plain language for the leaders who need to understand what changes for the organisation.
FOR THE TECHNICAL TEAM
Need the full technical picture? It's here.
If you are the engineer who will actually build on kMetal, or the technical leader validating the architecture, go deeper for everything you need know.
kMetal Architecture Deep-Dive
How kMetal's three layers work together, the management plane, hosted control planes via Kamaji, and KVM + OVN embedded isolation. Includes the full component diagram and how provisioning flows end-to-end.
How kMetal Builds on Kamaji
Kamaji is the CNCF compliant project that powers kMetal's hosted control plane layer. Understand the relationship between the open-source building blocks and the production platform, including what kMetal adds on top.
Isolation Model, KVM and OVN
How kernel-native KVM provides compute-level tenant isolation and OVN provides fully isolated tenant networking, without a separate hypervisor product. Performance characteristics and security model explained.
Integrations
Cluster API, Terraform, Upbound APIs, GitOps workflows, and multi-provider configuration. How kMetal fits into the infrastructure and automation tooling your team already uses.
DEPLOY AND GO
Deploys with the tools you already use.
The conversation costs nothing. The clarity is immediate.
Talk to a Clastix commercial team member about your environment. We will map the current cost of your infrastructure setup, show you what consolidation looks like in practice, and give you the business case in plain language.
No commitment. 30-minute conversation.