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Locara

Sovereign Cloud & AI Platform

Your Cloud. Your Data. Your Infrastructure.

Local Data. Independent Cloud. Managed Applications.

Locara provides locally operated cloud, AI and managed application infrastructure — helping organizations keep critical data within their required jurisdiction while gaining the capabilities of a modern cloud platform.

  • Local data residency
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • AI ready
  • Managed operations
  • DevOps & SRE
  • Enterprise support

Runs with the clouds and platforms you already use

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • AWS Outposts
  • Azure Local
  • Cloudflare
  • DigitalOcean
  • Hetzner
  • Contabo
  • OVHcloud

Trademarks belong to their respective owners. Shown to describe interoperability, not partnership.

The problem

Cloud shouldn’t mean losing control.

The capabilities of modern cloud platforms are not in question. Where the data sits, who operates the infrastructure, and who answers when it breaks — increasingly are.

Data residency

Application and customer data may need to remain within a specific country or jurisdiction, and you need to be able to show that it does.

Cloud dependency

Deep dependence on one external provider’s managed services makes pricing, availability and exit somebody else’s decision.

Operational complexity

Kubernetes, databases, networking, monitoring, backups and security each demand specialist engineering that most teams cannot staff at once.

AI infrastructure

AI applications need GPU compute, model serving, retrieval and data pipelines — next to data that often cannot leave the building.

Skills and support

DevOps, SRE and application operations are needed continuously, not just during the project that created the platform.

Recovery

Backups exist almost everywhere. Tested recovery, with an agreed time to restore, is far rarer.

The Locara approach

Cloud experience. Local infrastructure. Managed end to end.

One platform that combines cloud infrastructure, AI infrastructure and the engineering to operate them — on infrastructure whose location you can name.

Cloud infrastructure

Compute, networking, storage, Kubernetes, managed databases and backup, delivered as a platform.

AI infrastructure

GPU compute, model hosting, inference and the data services AI applications depend on.

Managed operations

DevOps, CloudOps, SRE, monitoring, security and maintenance, with named engineers.

Application platform

Deploy and run applications without owning every layer of infrastructure underneath them.

How a workload is layered

  1. Customer application

    Your services and users

  2. Locara application platform

    Deploy, run, observe

  3. Managed Kubernetes & compute

    Clusters, VMs, autoscaling

  4. Database, storage & messaging

    PostgreSQL, object storage, cache

  5. AI & GPU infrastructure

    Model serving, inference, vectors

  6. Locara operations

    DevOps, SRE, incident response

  7. Locally operated data centre

    Compute, network, storage

Products

Three products, one platform

Start with infrastructure, add AI capability, and decide how much of the operations you want to keep.

Locara Cloud

Cloud

Cloud infrastructure, operated locally.

  • Virtual machines
  • Managed Kubernetes
  • Autoscaling
  • Private container registry
  • Private networks
  • Load balancing
  • Network policy
  • VPN & private interconnect
  • Block storage
  • +6 more

Locara AI

AI

AI infrastructure for applications that need local data and local compute.

  • GPU nodes
  • Training & fine-tuning
  • Inference serving
  • LLM hosting
  • Model gateway
  • Private AI environments
  • Vector database
  • Document pipelines
  • Object storage
  • +3 more

Locara Managed

Managed

We operate your cloud and applications — with you, or for you.

  • CI/CD pipelines
  • GitOps
  • Infrastructure as Code
  • Kubernetes operations
  • Monitoring & alerting
  • Incident response
  • Patching & maintenance
  • SLOs
  • Capacity planning
  • +4 more

How it runs

How workloads run on Locara

The same locally operated foundation carries a Kubernetes platform, an MLOps lifecycle and an LLM pipeline — with the team that operates it in the loop.

Managed Kubernetes on local infrastructure

A production cluster whose control plane, upgrades and observability are run by Locara engineers, with the workloads and their storage in the same locally operated facility.

  • Web, API and background workloads scheduled across worker nodes; GPU nodes join the same cluster for AI services.
  • Persistent volumes, S3-compatible object storage and backups next to the cluster rather than in another region.
  • Metrics, logs and alerts watched by the team that operates the platform, with patching and upgrades handled for you.
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Running a smaller site, store or SaaS?

There is a packaged version of this platform: high availability, TLS, a managed database, Redis, scheduled jobs and maintenance under an SLA — without a platform team of your own.

Data localization

Keep your data where it belongs.

The difference is not the technology in the stack — it is where each layer physically sits, and who operates it.

Typical public-cloud path

Capable, global, and operated outside your jurisdiction.

  1. Your users and applications

  2. External cloud provider

    Managed services under external control

  3. Remote region

    Chosen from available regions

  4. Data stored and processed abroad

    Regulatory and operational dependency to manage

The Locara path

The same capabilities, operated locally.

  1. Your users and applications

  2. Locara cloud platform

    Kubernetes, databases, storage, AI services

  3. Locally operated data centre

    A facility you can identify

  4. Data stays in your jurisdiction

    Including backups, logs and AI workloads

Locara helps organizations design and operate infrastructure around their data residency and jurisdictional requirements. We do not claim that using the platform automatically satisfies any particular regulation — your legal and compliance teams define the requirement, and we build and evidence infrastructure that supports it.

Cloud independence

Reduce cloud dependency. Keep cloud capabilities.

Locara provides modern cloud capability through locally operated infrastructure, for the workloads where local control matters. Public cloud remains the right answer for plenty of other things — and we will say so when it is.
Infrastructure control
Capacity, placement and configuration decided with you, not inherited from a default.
Local operations and support
Engineers who operate the platform, reachable under local arrangements.
Open technologies
Kubernetes, containers, PostgreSQL, S3-compatible storage and standard APIs.
Infrastructure as code
Environments defined in code, so they can be rebuilt — or taken elsewhere.
Automation by default
Provisioning, delivery and recovery automated rather than documented and hoped for.
Portability
Exit planned from the first design, because that is what makes independence real.

Managed application platform

Don’t just host your application. Let us operate it.

From first deployment to the maintenance nobody enjoys — the platform and the people to run it, for as much of the lifecycle as you want to hand over.
  1. 01

    Build

    Pipelines, container builds, infrastructure as code and environments.

  2. 02

    Deploy

    Automated, reviewable releases with rollback that has been tested.

  3. 03

    Run

    Kubernetes, databases, networking and capacity operated for you.

  4. 04

    Monitor

    Metrics, logs, traces and alerts tied to user impact.

  5. 05

    Maintain

    Patching, dependency upgrades, performance work and small fixes.

  6. 06

    Improve

    Reliability engineering, cost work and architecture reviews.

  • CI/CD
  • GitOps
  • Container orchestration
  • Observability
  • Incident response
  • Security operations
  • Backup & DR
  • Application maintenance

AI application hosting

Build AI applications without moving sensitive data.

Private AI environments, enterprise copilots, retrieval-augmented systems and document intelligence — served next to the data they depend on.
  1. AI application

    Copilot, assistant, internal platform or API

    • Enterprise copilots
    • RAG systems
    • Document intelligence
  2. AI gateway

    One entry point with authentication, quotas, routing and audit logging

    • Access control
    • Rate limits
    • Prompt logging
  3. Model serving

    Open-weight LLMs and embedding models, versioned and monitored

    • LLM hosting
    • Inference
    • Evaluation
  4. GPU infrastructure

    Scheduled accelerated compute with per-team quotas

    • Training
    • Fine-tuning
    • Serving
  5. Data services

    Retrieval and storage under the application

    • Vector database
    • PostgreSQL
    • Object storage
  6. Local data

    Documents and records that stay inside your jurisdiction

AI workloads can be designed around local data residency requirements, and many run well on local infrastructure. Some do not: where you need frontier-model capability or large bursty training, we will say so and help you design the boundary deliberately rather than claim everything belongs in one place.

Tools & technology

Open technology, operated properly

The platform is assembled from technology you can look up, hire for and take with you. Filter by the part of the stack you care about.
  • Kubernetes

    The orchestration layer under every containerised workload we run.

    Containers & orchestration

  • Docker

    Container builds and local development parity.

    Containers & orchestration

  • Helm

    Packaging and versioning for everything deployed to a cluster.

    Containers & orchestration

  • Proxmox VE

    Virtualisation and clustering under the private cloud platform.

    Virtualization & private cloud

  • OpenStack

    Private cloud infrastructure services at data-centre scale.

    Virtualization & private cloud

  • GitLab CI

    Pipelines for build, test, scan and deploy.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • GitHub Actions

    Pipelines with OIDC to cloud accounts and no stored keys.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • Jenkins

    Long-standing pipelines we operate and modernise in place.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • Argo CD

    GitOps delivery: clusters reconcile what is committed to Git.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • Terraform

    Infrastructure as code for every environment we build.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • Ansible

    Configuration management and repeatable operational runbooks.

    CI/CD, GitOps & IaC

  • PostgreSQL

    Managed relational database with point-in-time recovery.

    Databases & streaming

  • Percona XtraDB Cluster

    Synchronous MySQL clustering for high-availability workloads.

    Databases & streaming

  • Redis

    Caching, queues and session storage.

    Databases & streaming

  • Apache Kafka

    Event streaming clusters for high-throughput pipelines.

    Databases & streaming

  • MinIO

    S3-compatible object storage inside your own environment.

    Storage

  • Longhorn

    Replicated block storage for Kubernetes, with snapshots and backup.

    Storage

  • Traefik

    Ingress and routing with automatic certificate management.

    Networking & ingress

  • HAProxy

    Load balancing and TLS termination at the edge of the platform.

    Networking & ingress

  • HashiCorp Vault

    Secrets management and short-lived dynamic credentials.

    Security & secrets

  • Trivy

    Vulnerability scanning for images, dependencies and IaC.

    Security & secrets

  • SonarQube

    Static analysis and quality gates in the delivery pipeline.

    Security & secrets

  • Prometheus

    Metrics collection and alerting rules across the platform.

    Observability

  • Grafana

    Dashboards for platform and application health.

    Observability

  • NVIDIA GPU

    Accelerated compute for training, fine-tuning and inference.

    AI & data science

  • Qdrant

    Vector database for retrieval-augmented applications.

    AI & data science

  • LangGraph

    Stateful agent and workflow orchestration for LLM applications.

    AI & data science

  • FastAPI

    The service layer most AI applications are exposed through.

    AI & data science

  • MLflow

    Experiment tracking and model registry.

    AI & data science

  • AWS

    Integrated where a workload genuinely belongs in public cloud.

    Cloud & hosting

  • Microsoft Azure

    Hybrid designs alongside locally operated infrastructure.

    Cloud & hosting

  • Google Cloud

    Used selectively, usually for data and AI services.

    Cloud & hosting

  • Cloudflare

    Edge protection, DNS and DDoS mitigation in front of the platform.

    Cloud & hosting

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Engineering services

Cloud & platform engineering

The capability behind the platform, available on its own: work alongside your team, fill one gap, or hand operations over entirely.

DevOps

Pipelines, containers and infrastructure as code that your team can own.

CloudOps

Day-two operations: the part everyone underestimates.

SRE

Reliability as an engineering target, with numbers attached.

Platform Engineering

Paved roads so product teams ship without becoming infrastructure experts.

Application Maintenance

Keeping running software healthy, current and supported.

Security & Compliance

Hardening, access control and the evidence auditors ask for.

Solutions

Start from the outcome you need

Each of these is the same platform, arranged around a different constraint.

Data Localization

Keep regulated and sensitive data inside the jurisdiction that requires it.

Application Hosting

Run business applications on infrastructure that someone is accountable for.

Cloud Modernization

Move from servers and scripts to containers, automation and defined environments.

AI Application Infrastructure

Serve models next to your own data, with the operational plumbing included.

Managed Kubernetes

Clusters that are built, upgraded, watched and recovered by people who do it daily.

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Recovery you have practised, with numbers you have agreed.

Industries

Where control matters most

The platform is the same; the pressure and the evidence requirements differ.

Government

Controlled infrastructure, local operations and evidence of where data lives.

Financial Services

Reliability, security and auditability, operated to agreed objectives.

Healthcare

Sensitive data in controlled, monitored environments.

Enterprise

Modernization and managed operations across a mixed estate.

Technology Companies

Cloud-native infrastructure and AI platforms without building an ops team first.

E-commerce & Online Retail

Stores that cannot afford a slow checkout or a bad Friday.

Startups & SaaS

Production-grade infrastructure before you can hire a platform team.

Small Business & Professional Services

Business sites, CMS and portals that simply have to stay up.

Why Locara

Six reasons organizations choose a local platform

Local

Infrastructure designed around the data residency your organization has to meet.

Independent

Reduced dependency on external providers for the workloads where that matters.

Cloud-native

Kubernetes, containers, APIs and infrastructure as code — not a rebranded server rack.

AI-ready

GPU capacity and model serving built into the platform, not bolted on later.

Managed

DevOps, CloudOps, SRE and application operations delivered by named engineers.

Reliable

Monitoring, backup, tested recovery and operational support as standard.

Architecture

The platform, layer by layer

Select a layer to see what sits in it. Everything below the experience layer is operated by Locara.

Layer 1 of 6

Experience

How teams interact with the platform: a portal for self-service, APIs for automation, and a CLI for engineers who live in a terminal.

  • Portal
  • API
  • CLI

Coverage

Where we can run your platform

Locara operates locally and works with carrier-neutral facilities worldwide. Select a location to see what can be delivered there.
  • Operating today
  • Available on request
  • Partner facility
  • Planned

Available on request

Dhaka

Bangladesh

  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Managed Kubernetes
  • AI / GPU

Locations marked “available on request” are places we can stand capacity up with our facility partners, subject to survey, contracts and lead time — they are not existing Locara capacity. Ask us for current status, lead times and the exact facility for any location that matters to you.

Trust

Built to be inspected

Security and reliability are engineering properties, and you should be able to ask how each one is implemented.

Local infrastructure

Workloads run in a facility we operate and can identify for you.

Security-focused architecture

Segmentation, least privilege, encryption and managed secrets by default.

Backup & disaster recovery

Per-workload objectives, encrypted copies and restore drills on a schedule.

Monitoring & observability

Metrics, logs and traces across platform and applications.

Least-privilege access

Named accounts, strong authentication and reviewed standing access.

Infrastructure as code

Environments reproducible from version control, with change history.

Kubernetes & open standards

Portable technology choices, so leaving stays an engineering task.

Audit trails

Administrative actions logged and retained for review.

The platform is designed to support security and compliance requirements, and we provide the technical evidence your auditors ask for. We do not claim certifications the company has not obtained — ask us directly about current status.

Case studies

Work we can walk you through

Detailed engagement write-ups are published here as customers approve them. In the meantime we are happy to walk you through reference architectures and how comparable platforms are designed and operated.

Insights

From the engineering team

24 August 2026

Data localization is an architecture problem before it is a legal one

Most residency programmes stall because nobody has mapped where data actually goes. Start with classification and data flow, not with procurement.

15 August 2026

What running AI on local infrastructure actually requires

GPUs are the least of it. The work is in retrieval pipelines, access control, capacity planning and evaluation — and in deciding what genuinely has to stay local.

6 August 2026

Managed Kubernetes: the questions to ask before you sign

Everyone says they manage Kubernetes. The differences show up in upgrades, on-call, and who is holding the pager at 3 a.m.

FAQ

Questions we are asked first

If yours is not here, ask us — the answer comes from an engineer, not a sales script.

For us it means three concrete things: the infrastructure is operated locally by a named organization, you can identify the facility your workloads run in, and the people who operate the platform are reachable and accountable under local arrangements.

It does not mean a badge. If a specific regulation applies to you, your legal and compliance teams define what it requires; we design and operate infrastructure to support that definition and give you the technical evidence.

Let’s discuss your infrastructure.

Tell us what you run today, where the data has to stay, and what you would rather not operate yourselves. We will come back with an architecture and a straight answer.