Two open-source infrastructure companies have combined their stacks to address organisations that need private and hybrid cloud without proprietary lock-in. OpenNebula Systems and SUSE announced on Tuesday a joint platform that brings together enterprise Linux, cloud virtualisation, and Kubernetes management into a single integrated offering for sovereign cloud deployments.
The combined solution spans the full infrastructure stack: SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLES) at the operating system layer, OpenNebula handling cloud orchestration and virtualisation management, and SUSE Rancher with the RKE2 Kubernetes distribution on top. The intent is to let organisations run virtual machines, Kubernetes workloads, and edge compute from a single management plane, with standardised lifecycle management across environments.
The target audience is organisations with strict data residency or regulatory requirements — a segment that has grown considerably as the VMware-Broadcom acquisition raised concerns about pricing, licensing, and long-term roadmap control. OpenNebula already positions itself as a VMware replacement platform, and the SUSE partnership strengthens that case by adding a hardened enterprise Linux substrate with long-term support commitments.
The platform provides a vendor-neutral alternative to integrated proprietary stacks, with full transparency and operational consistency across private and hybrid cloud deployments. OpenNebula handles end-to-end enterprise support for the combined solution, including secure multi-tenancy, resource governance, and automated lifecycle management across compute, storage, and networking.
"At SUSE, we believe that 'Choice Happens' when we prioritize interoperability and open innovation. By combining SUSE Linux Enterprise and Rancher with OpenNebula, we are providing organizations with a truly sovereign cloud platform — one that eliminates vendor lock-in and delivers the mission-critical resilience needed to run VMs, Kubernetes, and edge workloads on their own terms," said Diego Rios, General Manager EMEA South at SUSE.
"Our goal is to provide organizations with an open and sovereign cloud platform that combines stability, flexibility, and operational consistency," said Alexander Sergunin, Partner Manager at OpenNebula Systems. "Together with SUSE, we deliver a solution that allows organizations to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining full control."
OpenNebula supports more than 5,000 cloud deployments worldwide, with infrastructures scaling to thousands of hosts and tens of thousands of GPUs. The platform has also extended into AI factory deployments as demand for GPU-accelerated infrastructure management grows.
