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edgeContinuum is a Spanish alternative to VMware and AWS (OpenShift) for cloud hosting.

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Headquarters
Spain
Founded
2024
Open source
No
Free plan
No

Self-service private cloud on hardware you already own: managed Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, virtual machines and an app marketplace, including air-gapped sites.

Spanish private cloud platform from a University of Vigo spin-off that turns existing OpenStack infrastructure into self-service Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and VMs.

edgeContinuum turns the datacenters and edge sites an organisation already runs into a self-service private cloud. Teams get the public-cloud experience of spinning up clusters, databases and machines from one console and API, while every workload stays on infrastructure they own or control.

The platform sits on top of OpenStack and manages it rather than replacing the hypervisor underneath. It can run as SaaS, where edgeContinuum hosts the control plane and workloads stay on your hardware, fully on-premises inside your perimeter, or completely disconnected in air-gapped environments. Regions keep working autonomously if connectivity drops.

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Key benefits:

  • Managed Kubernetes with CNCF-conformant clusters and a kubeconfig ready in seconds
  • Managed PostgreSQL with automated provisioning, high availability and lifecycle management
  • Virtual machines launched from image catalogues on hardware you control
  • App marketplace for deploying Helm charts and containers from a curated catalogue
  • Multi-tenancy with isolated organisations, projects, users and quotas per client
  • Air-gapped operation with no vendor telemetry or call-home dependency
  • Resource-based pricing tied to managed clusters, databases and VMs, not cores or users

edgeContinuum grew out of cloud and edge computing research at the University of Vigo in Galicia, Spain, and is being commercialised as a university spin-off co-funded by the Xunta de Galicia. It is built on open-source foundations (OpenStack and Kubernetes) rather than a proprietary US virtualisation stack, and is engineered and supported in the EU under GDPR.

Ideal for telecom operators, public bodies and enterprises looking for a sovereign path off VMware or OpenShift without handing their infrastructure to a hyperscaler.

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