A personal note for Josh West & the Foundation.io team

Your Customers Want a Developer Platform.
Let's Build It Together.

Epinio turns any Kubernetes cluster into a Heroku-like PaaS in minutes. Krumware can help Foundation.io implement, white-label, and resell it — creating a brand-new recurring revenue stream for your business.

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Your Customers Are Drowning in Kubernetes Complexity

Foundation.io delivers world-class infrastructure — but your customers still struggle to deploy apps on it.

Slow Time-to-Value

Developers wait days or weeks to get apps running on clusters your team just provisioned. The last mile is broken.

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DevOps Bottlenecks

Every deployment requires specialist Kubernetes knowledge. Dev teams are blocked. Your customers blame the platform.

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Missed Revenue

You hand off a cluster and walk away. There's no PaaS layer to upsell, no recurring usage fees, no stickiness.


Epinio Fixes the Last Mile

Open-source, SUSE-backed, and built specifically for ops teams that manage Kubernetes on behalf of others.

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epinio push — That's It

Developers push source code directly. Epinio handles building, containerizing, and deploying automatically.

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Built-in Service Catalog

Postgres, Redis, RabbitMQ, and more — provisioned on-demand from a curated catalog without Helm expertise.

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True Multi-Tenancy

Namespace-level isolation means you can serve multiple customers from a single cluster with zero bleed-over.

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Enterprise-Ready Security

OIDC authentication, RBAC, and network policies baked in. Audit-friendly and compliant by default.

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Any Kubernetes

Works on EKS, GKE, AKS, RKE2, K3s — and yes, anything Foundation.io already provisions for customers today.

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GitOps & CI/CD Ready

Integrates with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Argo. Fits into existing workflows with zero friction.


The Business Case for Foundation.io

This isn't a technology experiment — it's a revenue and retention play.

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New Recurring Revenue

Offer Epinio as a managed PaaS tier on top of your clusters. Charge per namespace, per app, or per user. Krumware can help you build the pricing model.

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Dramatically Higher Retention

When customers run their production workloads through your PaaS layer, churn becomes near-impossible. The switching cost is their entire deployment pipeline.

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Land & Expand

Start a customer on one cluster with three namespaces. As they push more apps, they need more compute — sold through Foundation.io. Usage drives upsell automatically.

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Competitive Differentiation

Most Kubernetes MSPs hand off a kubeconfig and wish you luck. Foundation.io can offer a full developer experience — that's a category of one in your market.


Why Partner with Krumware?

We've done this before. We build, implement, and productize Epinio-based platforms for companies like Foundation.io.

  • Epinio implementation & integration into your existing cluster provisioning workflow
  • White-label branding so your customers see Foundation.io, not Epinio
  • Customer onboarding playbooks, runbooks, and documentation
  • Co-managed support model — Krumware handles escalations
  • Revenue share or licensing model that works for your business
  • Co-marketing: case studies, joint webinars, conference presence
  • Ongoing feature roadmap influence with the Epinio open-source community
  • Training for your engineering and sales teams

The Full Value Stack

Your Customer
Pushes code, ships products
Epinio PaaS Layer
Branded as Foundation.io Developer Platform
Krumware
Implementation, support & partnership
Foundation.io Kubernetes Infrastructure
The clusters you already manage

How It Works

From zero to a fully productized PaaS offering in four steps.

Pilot Cluster

Krumware installs and configures Epinio on one of your existing clusters in under a day. You see it live.

White-Label & Integrate

We brand it as the Foundation.io Developer Platform and wire it into your provisioning and billing systems.

First Customer

Pick one existing customer to onboard. They deploy their first app in minutes. You collect the testimonial.

Scale & Profit

Roll out to your full customer base. Revenue compounds as app count grows. Krumware stays by your side.


Josh, Let's Build Something Great Together

A 30-minute call is all it takes to see if this is the right fit. No pressure, no deck — just an honest conversation about what this could look like for Foundation.io.

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