stack8s provides a sovereign, cloud-native platform built on Kubernetes for orchestrating AI workloads across more than 15 cloud providers. This platform unifies infrastructure management under a single control plane, eliminating multi-cloud headaches and vendor lock-in. Users benefit from significant cost savings by optimizing compute selection while maintaining private, secure, and globally scalable deployments.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Startups and enterprises face challenges in managing cloud infrastructure costs, especially when utilizing AI/ML services, leading to wasted resources and unpredictable expenses. Vendor lock-in further complicates cost optimization and workload migration across different cloud environments.
Solution
Stack8s provides a Kubernetes-native cloud platform that enables organizations to manage infrastructure and AI applications at scale across multiple cloud providers from a single control plane. The platform, built on the Stack8s Spine network fabric mesh, integrates with over 15 cloud and edge providers, allowing users to provision compute resources from any cloud into a unified Kubernetes cluster. Stack8s Portal offers a private cloud platform to manage compute and workloads without YAML complexity or multi-cloud headaches. By optimizing compute choices and providing tools for cost visibility and resource management, Stack8s helps reduce cloud bills and eliminate vendor lock-in.
Target Audience
Stack8s targets startups, scale-ups, and enterprises that are looking to optimize cloud spending, avoid vendor lock-in, and efficiently manage AI/ML workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Features
- Stack8s Spine: Network fabric mesh that connects 15+ cloud providers on a single Kubernetes control plane.
- Stack8s Portal: Private cloud platform for managing compute and workloads.
- Multi-tenancy: Provision and manage environments with full multi-tenancy.
- App Marketplace: One-click install for pre-configured tools, LLM models, Vector DBs, and IoT stacks.
- Built-in GitOps and MLOps pipelines for seamless code-to-deploy across environments.
- Private Git + Container Registry: Run a private Git and Container registry within the Kubernetes environment.
- IoT Stack: Connect, manage, and scale edge devices natively across the Stack8s network, including LoRaWAN support.
- Storage: Keep data close to compute and compliant with regional needs across any cloud or on-prem setup.
- Integration with AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, and OVHCloud.
- Component Marketplace with 100+ pre-packaged components like Ollama, Chroma DB, Kafka, TensorFlow, and RStudio.