Beyond Day 1: The openCenter Advantage
Other platforms give you Kubernetes and wish you luck. openCenter delivers the complete stack you need for production operations: GitOps automation, security hardening, observability, secrets management, backup, key rotation, and lifecycle management—not as add-ons, but built in from the start. Pure upstream Kubernetes. No proprietary APIs. No fork tax. No vendor lock-in.
Runs on bare metal, VMs, or any cloud. Your infrastructure, your control, your terms.
We go beyond managed Kubernetes. GitOps automation, security policies, observability, backup, key rotation, and lifecycle management—everything you need for production operations from Day 1 through Day 2+.
Pure upstream Kubernetes. Inspect every line. Fork if you want. No proprietary APIs. No vendor lock-in. We earn your business by being useful, not by holding your infrastructure hostage.
17 Kyverno policies enforced, Pod Security Admission configured, RBAC integrated, secrets encrypted with SOPS, and key rotation automated. Security built in before your first deploy, not after your first breach.
Monitoring, logging, upgrades, backup, drift detection, key rotation, and disaster recovery. The operational capabilities that matter after the demo ends and production goes live.
Tier definitions
Deployment models by operating maturity and support depth.
| Tier | Who it's for | Core promise | Support level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community | Builders & PoCs | Free, self-supported platform with GitOps, security policies, and observability for evaluation/dev. | Community |
| Essentials | First production cluster | Complete platform operations with 8×5 support—GitOps, security, monitoring, and lifecycle management. | Standard |
| Enterprise | Multi-cluster at scale | 24×7 platform operations with SRE support, SLAs, DR, advanced policies, and blueprints. | Premium |
| Regulated | Financial, healthcare, public sector | Compliance-ready platform with evidence automation, segregation, change control, FIPS/HSM, air-gap. | Mission Critical |
Platform capabilities and tiers
Feature coverage from Community through Regulated.
| Entitlement | Community | Essentials | Enterprise | Regulated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Open Source | $79 | $245 | $549 |
| Bootstrap & lifecycle (FluxCD) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optimized CNIs (Cilium/Calico/Kube-ovn) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Policy guardrails (Kyverno) | Templates | Baseline | Enterprise pack | Regulated pack |
| DR runbooks | Community docs | L2 guided | L2/L3 with tests | L2/L3 + evidence |
| Compliance packs (SOC2/NIST/HITRUST/PCI) | N/A | N/A | Readiness kit | Evidence automation |
| Image signing/SBOM & CVE management | N/A | Basic | Advanced | Advanced + FIPS |
| Dedicated TAM | N/A | N/A | ✓ | ✓ |
| Blueprints | Community | Add-on | Add-on | Add-on w/ contract |
| Support (e-mail, knowledge base) | Self-served | 8×5 (email) | 24×7 + Phone | Enterprise + Priority |
| SLAs (Response) | N/A | 4 Hours | 1 Hour | 15 Minutes |
| Support Level | Community | Standard | Premium | Mission Critical |
| Starting Price | $0 | $349 | $389 | $726 |
Bootstrap & lifecycle (FluxCD) included across all tiers.
SSO included across all tiers.
Optimized CNIs included across all tiers.
What is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is a production-ready, versioned deployment specification for a complete platform stack. It extends openCenter Platform with workload-specific services, compliance controls, and operational workflows— not just a cluster template, but a complete operational model.
Defines what deployment problem is being solved and for whom.
Specifies the services, operators, and integrations included in the platform stack.
Captures controls, evidence expectations, and hardening requirements.
Defines GitOps workflows, lifecycle management, and day-2 operations.
Clarifies what is sold and what is covered by support.
Blueprint pricing
Pricing model by deployment tier.
| Blueprint | Community | Essentials | Enterprise | Regulated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud (OpenStack) | $0 | $375 | $425 | $649 |
| AI (Per Node/GPU) | N/A | N/A | $ | $ |
| DBaaS | N/A | N/A | 2026 | 2026 |
| Sitecore | N/A | N/A | 2026 | 2026 |
| Banking Software | N/A | N/A | 2026 | 2026 |
| Marketplace | 2026 | 2026 | 2026 | 2026 |
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