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Why Customers Choose Omnistrate: A Deep Dive into the BYOC Landscape
When teams talk about Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) enablement, the conversation often gets conflated with tools that only address small slices of the problem. At first glance, platforms like Nuon might appear to help you “run in your customer’s environment,” but what they actually provide is far narrower. Nuon simplifies one operational leg — orchestrating Terraform and Helm charts within customer environments via their agent-based mechanism. That agent retrieves and deploys your configurations locally, which can be useful for a very specific deployment flow. But that’s where their focus stops and even thats limited to specific cloud environments (no GCP, OnPrem or OCI support)
The broader challenge of BYOC goes well beyond this. True multi-tenant delivery in customer environments requires an integrated system that covers packaging, customer self-service, IaC-driven infrastructure automation, and autonomous day-2 operations like scaling, continuous upgrades, monitoring, observability, cost optimization, and compliance management. It’s about more than getting your app deployed — it’s about managing the lifecycle of that deployment autonomously across many customer accounts.
This is where Omnistrate steps in. Instead of just acting as a deployment orchestrator, Omnistrate defines the full operational framework for running cloud-native applications in your customers’ environments. It brings together infrastructure, metering and billing, licensing, multi-tenancy, integrations, and automated operations under one cohesive platform — enabling true BYOC experiences at scale.
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In the next section, we’ll look at how Omnistrate and Nuon differ across key technical and operational dimensions:
| Category | Nuon | Omnistrate |
|---|---|---|
| Core Purpose | Orchestrating infrastructure provisioning (via Terraform) and app installation in customer environments. | Full distribution platform from packaging, infrastructure, deployments, tenant management, operations, billing, and third-party integrations end-to-end. |
| Deployment Model | Primarily BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud). No native Hosted PaaS, SaaS or air-gapped mode. | Unified support for BYOC, PaaS, OnPrem, and SaaS — seamlessly manages hosted + customer deployments from one control plane. |
| Cloud Support | Supports automated provisioning inside customer AWS or Azure accounts. No GCP support. | Support for AWS, GCP, Azure, AirGapped with OCI support coming soon. |
| Air-Gapped / Offline Support | ❌ Not supported — depends on Terraform Cloud and API access. | ✅ Supports fully offline installations and air-gapped deployments. |
| Tenant Model | Install-centric - each deployment is not tenant-aware. They don't have any concept of Customer - there is no tenant auth, no tenant RBAC, no tenant management. Basically - there is no way to support self-serve distribution by your customers or support tenant-aware upgrades or day-2 operations | Tenant-aware — from deployments, infrastructure, upgrades, billing to day-2 operations. |
| Customer Experience | No place for your customers to access, provision, monitor, configure, or govern their deployments, usage, subscriptions. | Unified customized portal, CLI, and API for your customers to access, provision, monitor, configure, and govern deployments, with enterprise auth and access control. |
| K8s Management | Only supports K8s cluster setup through Terraform (written by you). | Fully managed K8s cluster installations including upgrades, observability, and management. |
| Upgrade Management | Limited — relies on external CI/CD pipelines and Terraform re-runs for updates. No tenant-aware CD. Manual per-deployment push for each upgrade. | Tenant-aware continuous delivery (CD) with phased rollouts, health checks, version targeting, and rollback automation. |
| Day-2 Operations | Basic updates via Terraform / Helm Charts or manual scripts. No centralized operations management once deployed. | Full Day-2 automation: upgrades, scaling, backup/restore, health monitoring, and cost controls — with policy and audit controls. |
| Observability & Health Monitoring | None. Relies on the vendor’s existing observability stack. No built-in metrics or logs. | Full observability stack: logs, metrics, alerts, K8s events, cost telemetry, and drift detection from a unified control plane. |
| MCP Server | None | Day-1 and Day-2 can be managed through MCP tools with Claude / Github CoPilot. |
| Governance | Limited global policy control. | Scales across thousands of tenants or environments with centralized governance, policies, and version management. |
| Scaling | None | Auto-scaling with auto-stop. |
| Billing & Metering | None. No integration with marketplaces or usage-based billing. | Integrated billing and metering with AWS/GCP/Azure Marketplace transactions, cost visibility, and chargeback automation. |
| Licensing & Entitlements | No licensing or entitlement system. Deployments are controlled by CI/CD integration and Terraform access. | Built-in licensing and entitlement engine with auto-rotation, plan enforcement, usage-based metering, and expiration control. |
| Infra Requirements | Developers must define IaC modules and maintain state management. | No Terraform or IaC required — Simply register your container or Helm chart. You can also bring your own Terraform modules if desired. |
| AI Workload Support | None except using TF. | Native Al support from Infra (GPU driver management) including multi-tenancy and time-slicing / MIG, deployments with agents as first-class citizen, observability, governance with guardrails/evals, billing with outcome-based pricing. |
| Packaging & Distribution | No true packaging concept — relies on pre-defined IaC templates. Vendors manage versioning outside the platform. | Full packaging layer — turns any container/Helm/operator/Kustomize into a SaaS offering (plans, pricing, versions, entitlements, metering). |
| Third-Party Integrations | Integrates primarily with Terraform. | Broad integration ecosystem in addition to Terraform: Cloud PaaS, billing, observability, CI/CD, and marketplace systems. |
| Environments | None | Manage developer environments and promotions to build your E2E CI/CD pipeline. |
| Certificate Management | None | Multi-cloud, auto-rotating ACME TLS certs per customer deployment. |
| Events & Notifications | Minimal — limited to install success/fail. | Rich eventing, alerts, webhooks, and system notifications. |