EKS Exit • Private Cloud Kubernetes
Managed Kubernetes in Germany
Dedicated Kubernetes clusters in our Frankfurt data center — fully managed, sovereign, exit-ready. The private-cloud alternative to EKS and GKE, without egress bills, US jurisdiction or noisy neighbors.
Dedicated clusters — no noisy neighbors
Frankfurt, Germany
GDPR & KRITIS-ready
24/7 managed operations
No hyperscaler lock-in
Initial situation
Hyperscaler Kubernetes bills you for your own growth
EKS and GKE look cheap per cluster — until egress, load balancers, NAT gateways and support tiers land on the same invoice, and your user data sits under US jurisdiction. For EU companies in regulated industries the question is no longer just cost: it is who controls the platform your business runs on. Dedicated Kubernetes in Germany answers both — predictable pricing on isolated infrastructure, under German law, on open standards you can leave with.
- Fully isolated clusters — dedicated VLANs, optional dedicated hardware
- Predictable monthly cost — no egress or per-API-call surprises
- GDPR, KRITIS, DiGA and ISO-27001-oriented operations
- Exit-ready: vanilla Kubernetes, open standards, your workloads stay portable
The offer
What "Managed Kubernetes"
means at Hostzero
We run your clusters 24/7
Updates & security patches handled
99.9% availability SLA
Your workloads stay in Germany
No lock-in — vanilla Kubernetes, export anytime
Why teams move their Kubernetes to us
Dedicated by Design
Your own cluster on isolated VLANs — optionally on hardware reserved exclusively for you. No shared control planes, no noisy neighbors, full control over resources.
Sovereign & Compliant
Frankfurt data center, German law, GDPR-native. Built for regulated industries: KRITIS, DiGA/healthcare and ISO-27001-oriented operations with documented processes.
Exit-Ready Architecture
Vanilla Kubernetes on open standards — no proprietary managed-service glue. Take your manifests and workloads anywhere, anytime. That is the point.
Hyperscaler Kubernetes vs dedicated clusters in Germany — the honest comparison
| Criterion | EKS / GKE | Hostzero Managed Kubernetes |
|---|---|---|
Cost model | Cluster fee + egress + LB/NAT + support tier | Fixed monthly price per cluster |
Support | Ticket tiers | Direct engineer access |
Data jurisdiction | US CLOUD Act applies | German law, Frankfurt DC |
Infrastructure | Shared, multi-tenant | Dedicated, isolated VLANs, optional dedicated hardware |
Elastic burst scale | Excellent — minutes to hundreds of nodes | Planned capacity; hardware scaling in days, not minutes |
Ecosystem integrations | Deep (IAM, S3, Lambda…) | Open-source stack (Keycloak, Ceph, Prometheus…) |
Compliance for KRITIS/DiGA | Your responsibility to prove | Built into operations & documentation |
Who is on call at 2 a.m. | You (or premium support tier) | Our engineers |
Lock-in | Managed-service glue accumulates | Vanilla Kubernetes — export anytime |
Operating models
Three models — from root access to 24/7 operations
Every cluster is dedicated. Choose who operates it. All prices are net, fixed monthly — no egress, no per-API fees.
KubeCore Root — Self-Managed
Smart Managed
Enterprise Managed — 24/7 Operations
Open Source
We build Kubernetes tooling in the open — meet KubePress
Hostzero develops and maintains KubePress, an open-source Kubernetes operator for WordPress: declarative, GitOps-ready deployments of the world’s most-used CMS on any cluster. It is the same engineering discipline we apply to every customer platform — published, documented, reusable. Alongside it: our open-source Keycloak Operator for identity on Kubernetes.
apiVersion: crm.hostzero.de/v1
kind: WordPressSite
metadata:
name: wp--client-site
namespace: kubepress
spec:
siteTitle: client-site
adminUserSecretKeyRef: wp--client-site
database:
createNew: true
wordpress:
image: wordpress:latest
replicas: 1
storageSize: 10Gi
ingress:
host: client-site.example.com
tls: trueSecurity & Compliance
Built for regulated industries — KRITIS, DiGA, ISO 27001
KRITIS
BSI-compliant hardening of critical infrastructure (IT-SiG 2.0)
DiGA / Healthcare
BfArM-compliant infrastructure for digital health applications
ISO 27001
Certification-ready ISMS processes and documentation
GDPR
Data-protection-compliant architecture, audit-proof logging
Supply-chain security & image scanning (Trivy, SBOM)
Zero-trust networking with Cilium/eBPF
Automated PKI & mTLS (cert-manager)
Immutable audit logs & monitoring (Loki, Prometheus)
Onboarding
From EKS or bare metal to your cluster — without a big-bang cutover
Assessment
Workloads, storage, network, compliance requirements — and which operating model fits
Platform build
Dedicated cluster in Frankfurt: VLANs, storage, monitoring, backups wired in
Migration
Workloads move namespace by namespace; your current platform stays as fallback
Operation
Per your model: from root handover to 24/7 managed with SLA
Why teams choose Hostzero for Kubernetes
We run open-source infrastructure in production every day — Kubernetes, Proxmox, Ceph, Keycloak — for customers and for ourselves, from Frankfurt.
15+ Years Open Source
Enterprise open-source experience since before Kubernetes existed — network security on Juniper/Linux, SELinux, and production clusters we run for ourselves and our customers.
Compliance in Practice
KRITIS, DiGA and ISO-27001 environments are our daily work — including the documentation and audit trail that certifications actually require.
Direct Engineer Access
No ticket tiers, no middlemen — you talk to the people who run your platform.
In production
Enterprise training infrastructure — running on our clusters.
Diligram AG runs high-availability training infrastructure for enterprise customers worldwide — on managed Kubernetes clusters we operate from Frankfurt. Everything below the application is our job: platform, monitoring, backups, on-call. Their team ships the product.
"We run high-availability training infrastructure for enterprise customers worldwide. Hostzero takes care of everything below the application — and it just works. Since we moved, we haven’t had to think about infrastructure."
Uwe Placzek, Diligram AG (Managed Kubernetes / e-learning platform)
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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Ready to own your Kubernetes platform?
Talk to an engineer — 30 minutes, no sales pitch. Tell us your workloads and compliance requirements, and we will tell you honestly which operating model fits — or whether staying on EKS is the right call for you.