Open. Native. Intelligent. To the Core.
Open-Source driven Solutions for Modern Enterprises and Public.
Open-Source and Sovereignty for Cloud and AI.
Our solutions run on standard hardware, on-premises or in the cloud.
- ✓ Free of any Licensing Fees
- ✓ No Vendor Lock-in
- ✓ Designed to Scale
- ✓ Resilient and Adoptable
- ✓ Sovereign and Secure by Default
VanillaStack
The distributed cloud stack. Multiple Kubernetes clusters as one platform, hub-and-spoke, with a central dashboard and AI-supported operations. On your infrastructure.
ExploreVanillaAI
VanillaAI, the sovereign platform for AI agents. Isolated runtime, central AI gateway, your knowledge, on your hardware.
ExploreVanillaBrain
Deep, curated knowledge bases around cloud-native and AI, consumable by your people and your AI agents. As a subscription.
Explore
“I founded VanillaCore because organizations must be able to own their stack: their clouds, their AI, their data. Vendors change rules, prices, and terms at will. Open source puts you back in control.”
Karsten Samaschke
Founder & CEO, VanillaCore
Proven in the Field
Selected engagements with international institutions and public-sector programs.
Government Cloud Trainings
GovStack · ITU · GIZ
Cloud fundamentals trainings for government teams, delivered on the ground in Djibouti and other countries. Organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and GIZ within the GovStack initiative.
Digital Sovereignty in Practice
ZenDiS · openCode
Invited by ZenDiS, Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty, to show at openCode Connect how administrations become digitally sovereign with open source and the Sovereign Cloud Stack.
Open Infrastructure Communities
Sovereign Cloud Stack · GovStack
Active in the Sovereign Cloud Stack and GovStack communities. We contribute to the open infrastructure that sovereign clouds and digital governments run on.
Start breaking free!
Break away from vendor lock-in with cloud-native, open-source & AI solutions that you control. Write to us. We answer ourselves.
Karsten Samaschke
Founder & CEO
Enterprises & architecture: cloud-native platforms, AI stacks, modernization, engineering.
Write to Karsten
Friederike Zelke
Partner Manager
Public sector, GovStack & partnerships: governments, international organizations, communities.
Write to FriederikeTechnical Foundations
Production-grade open-source building blocks, integrated end to end.
Infrastructure Core
Production-grade stacks built on Proxmox, Kubernetes, and OpenStack (SCS), with Yaook enabling OpenStack on Kubernetes
Storage & Data
Distributed storage with Rook/CEPH and MinIO, powered by PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, and Cassandra for scalable data operations
Full-Stack Observability
Centralized metrics, logging, and tracing through Prometheus, Cortex, Thanos, Loki, and Tempo with Grafana visualization
AI & ML Operations
On-premises AI infrastructure using LangChain, Hugging Face, and Ollama for controlled model deployment and execution
Identity & Security
Centralized authentication through Keycloak with OIDC and SAML integration for secure access management
DevOps & Automation
GitOps-based delivery using GitHub/GitLab with full CI/CD automation through HELM and Ansible
Perspectives
The people behind VanillaCore speak, write, and teach in public.
Videos
Karsten Samaschke
Hands-on videos on AI, cloud, sovereignty, and open source. No vendor marketing.
samaschke.com/videosAnalysis & Writing
Karsten Samaschke
Independent perspectives connecting systems, strategy, sovereignty, and business value.
samaschke.com/blogCommunity & Talks
Friederike Zelke
Digital sovereignty for governments and organizations: GovStack, Sovereign Cloud Stack, and capacity building worldwide.
Friederike on LinkedIn