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Self-hosted / open sourceVirtualisation & ContainersHeadquarters: FR

OpenSVC: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

OpenSVC is open-source software for cluster management and high availability on Linux servers. Its agent supervises, restarts and relocates applications between nodes and can orchestrate containers and other resources such as disks, filesystems and IP addresses. According to its makers, the current version targets small to mid-sized clusters of 1 to 32 nodes and runs on physical servers, virtual machines and cloud instances. An optional collector aggregates agent data for inventory, auditing and automation. It is operated through the command line, a terminal interface and an API.

OpenSVC is both the product name and the name of the French company behind it, based in Gouvieux and founded in 2009. The agent has been licensed under Apache 2.0 since version 3. You run the software yourself, so configuration and data stay in your own environment; the company also sells support. The documentation consulted does not mention a cloud service of its own.

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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 October 14, 2026
Headquarters
FR (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
Category
Virtualisation & Containers
Type
Product
Website
opensvc.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to OpenSVC

The European alternatives to OpenSVC come from our knowledge base of over 8,400 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 OpenSVC

OpenSVC is headquartered in FR 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 OpenSVC scores best on data residency.

OpenSVC 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 OpenSVC 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 OpenSVC?

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

Are there open-source alternatives to OpenSVC?

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

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

OpenSVC is headquartered in FR (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes OpenSVC 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 October 14, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

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".

We found none of these signals on the vendor's own site when we checked.

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

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In the changelog

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Digital sovereignty in Virtualisation & Containers

Virtualisation & Containers: Virtualisation platforms, container management, Kubernetes distributions and hypervisors. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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