Sovereign Platform · 100% FOSS · Production Ready

The Sovereign Private Cloud

Complete infrastructure automation suite to orchestrate virtual compute, storage, and SD-WAN on privately-owned commodity hardware.

Take back control of your cloud destiny. Kowabunga delivers full cloud agility, API-first automation, and declarative Infrastructure as Code—without hyperscaler margins, unpredictable egress taxes, or proprietary vendor lock-in.

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main.tf — Terraform / OpenTofu
IaC Simplicity
# Declarative HCI on commodity bare-metal
resource "kowabunga_dns_record" "records" {
  for_each  = toset(var.private_dns_records)
  name      = each.key
  desc      = "Kubernetes private DNS record"
  project   = var.project
  addresses = [kowabunga_konvey.lb.private_ip]
}

resource "kowabunga_kompute" "controller" {
  count      = var.controller_count
  project    = var.project
  zone       = var.zones[count.index % length(var.zones)]
  name       = "${var.product}-${var.env}-ctr-${count.index + 1}"
  template   = var.os_template
  vcpus      = 4
  mem        = 8192   # MB RAM
  disk       = 120    # GB Ceph Storage
  public     = false
}

resource "kowabunga_konvey" "lb" {
  name       = "${var.product}-${var.env}-lb"
  project    = var.project
  region     = var.region
  failover   = true
  endpoints  = [
    {
      name         = "k8s-api"
      protocol     = "tcp"
      port         = 6443
      backend_port = 6443
      backend_ips  = [for vm in kowabunga_kompute.controller[*] : vm.ip]
    }
  ]
}
Hyper-Converged KVM Ceph Distributed Storage Automated SD-WAN
Sovereign Cloud Engine

The Best of Both Worlds: Cloud Velocity with On-Premises Sovereignty

Kowabunga combines modern Cloud APIs, Terraform automation, and X-as-a-Service workflows with 100% mastered, predictable, flat-rate private infrastructure on commodity x86 hardware.

Private Cloud & Data Sovereignty

Maintain absolute control over your applications, data, and regulatory compliance. Run on private bare-metal servers or local datacenters with zero extraterritorial jurisdiction risks or foreign cloud access.

Absolute Digital Sovereignty.

Cost-Effective & Flat-Rate

Full private cloud readiness on standard commodity hardware. No runtime fees, no per-core taxes, and zero egress surprises. Reduce total infrastructure TCO by 60% to 80% compared to hyperscalers.

Predictable, Uncapped Economics.

Repatriation & True Ownership

Repatriate workloads from hyperscaler lock-in and VMware licensing traps back to mastered, cost-effective infrastructure. You own the hardware, you own the platform, and you master your destiny.

Technical Choices Remain Yours.

Always 100% Open Source

Kowabunga is Free & Open Source Software (FOSS)—from the REST API to every daemon and client component. No freemium tiers, no feature gating, and no commercial entrapment. Open source as a public heritage.

Built on Mutual Trust.

Solid API-First & IaC Automation

Engineered for DevOps and GitOps from Day 1. Comprehensive RESTful APIs, native Go SDK, and official Terraform / OpenTofu providers. Provision complex multi-tier topologies with declarative code in seconds.

Complete Infrastructure as Code.

Minimalism & High Reliability

We reject unnecessary layers of abstraction. Kowabunga is lightweight, purpose-built Go software standing on battle-tested giants: KVM virtualization, Ceph distributed storage, and Linux kernel networking.

Zero Bloat, Production-Grade.

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

Every application needs a rock-solid, mastered foundation to scale sustainably.

You’ve built the best new application with killer features?

That’s awesome!

But can the underlying backbone be trusted?

Post-MVP, as your user base and data volumes grow, hyperscaler compute abuse and egress bills threaten your business profitability.

Software itself has no value without a mastered, rock-solid infrastructure foundation to sustain it.

Kowabunga provides the sovereign orchestration platform you need to self-operate, automate, and scale the entire infrastructure value chain on commodity hardware.

Take back control of what’s rightfully yours!

Profitability Scale-Up: Hyperscaler vs Sovereign TCO

Savings compound as your footprint scales. Costs become transparent, capped, and predictable.

(*) Kowabunga cost projection is based on OVHcloud BareMetal Scale 3-AZ range with zero egress and zero inter-AZ fees.

Enterprise Support & Maintenance

Official Commercial Support by noBS!

Need mission-critical production SLAs, turnkey datacenter cluster deployment, or seamless cloud repatriation assistance? noBS! is the company behind Kowabunga, providing official 24/7 SLA production support, root-cause forensics, and hardware optimization directly from the platform maintainers.

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