Most infrastructure teams don't want to leave VMware because they dislike it — they want to leave because the invoice keeps climbing and the hardware underneath hasn't changed. OpenStack has been the obvious answer for years. It's open-source, it runs on hardware you already own, and it scales the way a real cloud should.
The problem was never OpenStack itself. It was everything around it: driver compatibility, storage backends, network topology, the dozens of small decisions that turn a reference architecture into a production environment. Teams would start a self-deployment, lose a quarter to it, and either give up or end up running something fragile.
Stravos was built by engineers who'd done that deployment enough times — for enough different hardware setups — to turn it into a repeatable process instead of a research project. We're not reselling someone else's platform. We're the layer that makes an already-good platform practical to run.
That's still the whole premise: assess what you have, design around it, deploy it with tooling that's seen the failure modes before, and leave your team able to run it without us.
We don't push a reference architecture. The deployment is designed against the compute, storage, and network you already have — not the setup that's easiest for us.
Your team sees how the environment is configured, not just how to click through it. Training isn't a formality — it's how we make ourselves optional.
Everything we deploy is open-source and yours to run. No proprietary layer, no renewal cycle, no dependency on Stravos staying in business.
Tell us what you're running today — VMware, Azure, AWS, or bare metal — and we'll tell you honestly what a Stravos deployment would look like.