The BubbleOps Platform

A Self-hosted Platform Engineering + Day-2 Ops Appliance for your Proxmox Infrastructure.

What Is BubbleOps?

BubbleOps is a Platform Engineering and Day-2 Operations appliance for software development and IT Operations teams on Proxmox, automating everything from provisioning to ongoing operations.

How BubbleOps Works

  • Automates provisioning
  • Prepares VMs with firstboot configs
  • Registers VMs into identity systems
  • Enrolls environments into monitoring
  • Auto-registers VMs for backup protection
  • Auto-registers to patch and config manager
  • VMs ready for managed Day-2 lifecycle operations

Why Teams Choose BubbleOps

  • Platform Engineering + Day-2 Ops in one appliance
  • Sovereign automation, fully self-hosted
  • Cloud-like automation on sovereign infrastructure
  • Faster developer onboarding and delivery
  • Reduced manual toil for IT and DevOps
  • Consistent, production-ready environments
  • Zero cloud dependency, zero lock-in

Provisioning

Instant VM creation with automated configuration

Operating

Automated Day-2 lifecycle management registration

Governing

Compliance and drift detection enabled

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Platform Engineering for Proxmox-based Infrastructures

A unified provisioning layer that gives Development Teams instant environments and gives Infrastructure Teams consistent, reusable automation patterns.

Developer-to-Environment Workflow

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Core Functionality

  • Bubble environment definition files for repeatable deployments
  • One-click or one-command provisioning for supported Linux OSes
  • Automatic VM preparation and registration
  • Hypervisor targeting and resource scheduling
  • Network and storage configuration
  • Automation via custom Firstboot Bash, Ansible, & Kickstart scripts
  • Developer self-service with governance controls
  • IT Ops infrastructure guardrails to maintain stability and prevent overload

Value Proposition

BubbleOps replaces ad-hoc scripts, Terraform sprawl, and manual provisioning workflows with a centralized platform layer that operates entirely inside your data center.

Build governed environments in minutes, not weeks.

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Day-2 Operations: Automated and Consistent

Automate everything needed to keep infrastructure running cleanly and predictably over time.

Deploying infrastructure is easy. Operating it efficiently for years is the hard part.

Day-2 Ops covers everything required after infrastructure is deployed.

Automatic Registration Into:

  • Identity Manager
  • Infrastructure Manager
  • Monitoring Service
  • Backup Service

Additional Features:

  • Predictable, consistent environments
  • Governance and compliance enforced by default
  • Controlled lifecycle from provision to teardown
  • Safe, controlled VM lifecycle operations without manual effort
  • Seamless integration with your existing systems

Value Proposition

Your operations team spends less time on repetitive tasks, your SRE team gains more reliability, and your developers work in consistent, well-governed environments.

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Architecture Built for Sovereign Infrastructure

BubbleOps integrates deeply with the open-source tooling that powers your infrastructure

BubbleOps Appliance

Virtual Appliance

Platform Engineering Layer

  • •Bubble Environment Definition
  • •Self-Service Provisioning Automation
  • •IT Ops Infrastructure Guardrails

Day-2 Ops Layer

  • •Instance Lifecycle Actions
  • •Auto-registration to Core Services
  • •Governance & Compliance Enforcement

Infrastructure Integrations

Proxmox

Compute, storage, VM creation

FreeIPA

Identity, RBAC, HBAC

Zabbix

Monitoring and alerting

PBS

Backup enrollment

Katello

Patch & repository registration

OPNsense

Network/firewall integration

Fully Customer-Controlled: Runs entirely on infrastructure you own or control

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Delivered Through SovrenStack Installation

BubbleOps is currently available exclusively through the SovrenStack deployment process to ensure a fully integrated, turnkey setup of your sovereign automation platform.

How It's Delivered

BubbleOps is packaged as a hardened Virtual Appliance, but at this stage it is not available for direct download.

Instead, it is installed and configured for you as part of the SovrenStack installation service, included in the current Sovereign Developer Data Center offer.

Delivery Highlights

  • Distributed exclusively through SovrenStack installations
  • Included at no additional cost
  • Ensures a secure, consistent, and properly integrated deployment
  • Pre-configured with open-source & sovereign infrastructure tools
  • Implemented by Sovren engineers during deployment

The Result

  • A fully validated installation
  • Integrated with FreeIPA, Zabbix, PBS, Katello & Proxmox
  • Standardized OS baseline for provisioned VMs
  • Integrated authentication and access policies
  • Immediate Platform Engineering and Day-2 Ops readiness

Looking Ahead

Future releases will introduce expanded delivery and licensing options. Today, BubbleOps is delivered exclusively through SovrenStack installations to ensure every deployment is fully validated, properly integrated with their software stack, and therefore production-ready from day one and thus reducing delivery risk.

As BubbleOps evolves, additional delivery models and integrations will become available.

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Supported Environments and Integrations

Built specifically for the open-source, enterprise-grade ecosystem powering modern sovereign infrastructure.

Supported Guest OSes

  • Rocky Linux 8/9/10 (guest OS)
  • AlmaLinux 8/9/10 (guest os)
  • Oracle Linux 8/9/10 (guest OS)
  • RHEL 8/9/10 (guest OS)
  • CentOS Stream (guest OS)

Integrated Infrastructure Tools

  • Proxmox VE (hypervisor)
  • FreeIPA (identity & access)
  • Zabbix (monitoring)
  • Proxmox Backup Server (backup system)
  • Katello (infrastructure manager)
  • OPNsense (firewall)

Complete Ecosystem

Hypervisor
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Identity Manager
Monitoring
Backup Server
Infrastructure Manager
Firewall

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Future Compatibility

BubbleOps is architected to evolve toward additional hypervisors and operating systems as needed by our customers.

BubbleOps Is Delivered Through SovrenStack

BubbleOps is currently delivered exclusively through SovrenStack, guaranteeing a fully integrated and production-ready operational environment.

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