LayerOps simplifies hybrid and multicloud — IT for Business

LayerOps is developing an orchestrator that bypasses the complexity of solutions like Kubernetes to handle platform deployment and management across on-premise infrastructure and various cloud services.

With a decade of experience running NimeOps, a web platform integrator, Nicolas Martinez founded a software company to commercialize an orchestration solution designed for production environments — enabling businesses to manage their multi-cloud and on-premise infrastructure across different providers.

LayerOps aims to deliver a self-service environment that allows users to deploy highly available clusters across infrastructure-as-code and cloud domains. Clusters can be distributed across different providers, giving users the freedom to choose between them. The solution eliminates the technical complexity of such deployments, making these architectures accessible to all businesses.

"The DNA of our solution is to ensure platform portability — both between cloud service providers, and between on-premise and the cloud."

— Nicolas Martinez, Founder of LayerOps

"We provide an abstraction layer over Kubernetes — all the complexity involved in managing millions of containers," explains Nicolas Martinez. "Very few users actually need that level of power, and it demands deep expertise that not every company can build in-house."

The approach championed by the founder addresses both platform portability and resilience: the solution can redeploy to an alternative provider in case of technical issues, provisioning new resources from a competitor and activating cloud services seamlessly.

Today, the solution integrates eight cloud providers — including major hyperscalers, French cloud providers, and SecNumCloud-certified services. It also manages bare-metal servers, opening the door to hybrid architectures where existing on-premise resources are complemented by public cloud capacity.

"LayerOps offers users a pool of available resources, all interconnected, allowing them to deploy their services freely with all the capabilities of Kubernetes — but without its complexity."

The solution relies primarily on open-source building blocks. The team has rewritten certain parts of the code, notably to replace Terraform following its license change. "We preferred to develop our own orchestrator to address the licensing shift. It handles resource creation on cloud platforms, secure interconnection, and container orchestration."

The platform supports cloud instances delivered via API, giving users the ability to visualize cloud costs and bill based on actual observed usage.

The SaaS version of LayerOps has been available since February 2025. The company is now working on implementing micro-SaaS capabilities and plans to expand beyond software containers to also support virtual machines.