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SysEleven MetaKube: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

MetaKube is SysEleven's managed Kubernetes platform. It manages compute, storage and network resources on the basis of Kubernetes and runs on SysEleven's own OpenStack cloud. It comes in three tiers: Core for hosting cloud applications, Accelerator for setting up and managing software projects, and Operator, where the provider takes over both hosting and operation of the applications. It is aimed at organisations that want to work cloud-natively without running the infrastructure themselves, and it is consumed as a service.

SysEleven GmbH is based in Berlin and has been a wholly owned subsidiary of secunet Security Networks AG, a German company, since 2022. SysEleven's website now redirects to secunet.cloud. According to the provider, the cloud runs in six georedundant data centres in Germany; at the time of the acquisition these were ISO 27001-certified locations. The infrastructure is based on open source, while no such statement is made for MetaKube itself. For European organisations this means hosting under German control and without a non-European parent company.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 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-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 9, 2026

Headquarters	DE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	SYSELEVEN - SysEleven GmbH, DE (DE)Technically measured
Category	Virtualisation & Containers
Type	Product
Website	secunet.cloud ↗

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 SysEleven MetaKube

The European alternatives to SysEleven MetaKube come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 SysEleven MetaKube

SysEleven MetaKube 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 SysEleven MetaKube scores best on data residency.

SysEleven MetaKube is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs SysEleven MetaKube 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 SysEleven MetaKube?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SysEleven MetaKube 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 SysEleven MetaKube?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SysEleven MetaKube 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 SysEleven MetaKube GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SysEleven MetaKube is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes SysEleven MetaKube an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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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".

security.txt: secunet.cloud/.well-known/security.txt
Supported versions: documentation.syseleven.de/en/products/metakube-core/concepts/kubernetes-versions/

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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