EU sovereignVirtualisation & ContainersHeadquarters: DE

Kubermatic: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Kubermatic provides software for managing Kubernetes at scale. Its main product, the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP), centrally automates the lifecycle of many clusters across multi-cloud, on-premises and edge environments. The company also offers KubeLB for load balancing, Kubermatic Virtualization for running virtual machines on Kubernetes, a developer platform with a service catalogue, a secrets management tool and an offering for shared GPU-based AI services. KKP is available as a Community Edition under the Apache 2.0 licence and as a subscription-based Enterprise Edition with official support.

Kubermatic is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 2016 as Loodse and renamed in 2020, and the company holds ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications. The platform manages clusters on infrastructure you choose, so where data sits depends on the providers and regions you connect, including EU ones. The open source edition lets European organisations run and inspect the core platform themselves.

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Sovereignty score

94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
Open source: low switching costs
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked July 2, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AMAZON-AES - Amazon.com, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
Category	Virtualisation & Containers
Type	Product
Website	kubermatic.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Kubermatic

The European alternatives to Kubermatic come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Kubermatic

Kubermatic is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Kubermatic scores best on data residency.

Kubermatic is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Kubermatic together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Kubermatic?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Kubermatic include APPUiO (VSHN), Gardener and Giant Swarm. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Kubermatic?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Kubermatic include Gardener, Giant Swarm, Harvester, IncludeOS, K3s, Kamaji and Linbit DRBD/LINSTOR. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Kubermatic GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Kubermatic is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Kubermatic an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

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Cyber Resilience Act

Public signals that relate to the EU Cyber Resilience Act. They do not count towards the score. A missing line means "not found publicly".

Supported versions: docs.kubermatic.com/kubermatic/latest/architecture/support-policy/
Organisation behind the open-source project: Kubermatic

For products in scope of the CRA, CE marking is required from 11 December 2027; this cannot be checked yet.

Checked on October 9, 2026. What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

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