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Containerize Once. Deliver Everywhere.
FSI software vendors carry three or four installers — on-prem, VPC, SaaS, sovereign — and a compliance pack for each. This blueprint containerizes your product once and ships it three ways from one certified image. Proven on one module in 30 days.
The bottom line.
Every customer wants your software in a different shape, on-prem, in their VPC, as SaaS, or sovereign and air-gapped and each is its own installer, support contract and compliance pack. The tax compounds with every logo: three or four pipelines, implementations that stretch into quarters, cores climbing as VM packaging over-provisions.
Containerize once on Options Modern Cloud and ship the same signed image three ways. You own the software; Options owns the platform, the 24/7 operations and the inherited compliance. Fewer cores, one compliance posture, faster time-to-revenue per customer, proven on one module before you commit.
Why now.
Deployment-Mode Fragmentation
Three or four parallel installers, QA multiplied every release, roadmap velocity decaying as your logo count grows.
Per-Core Licensing Pressure
Broadcom's VMware minimum jumped to 72 cores and renewals have run 150% to over 1,000%. Container density cuts cores 40–60%.
DORA Article 28
FSI buyers must register every ICT provider and evidence exit plans. An ISV without a clear deployment story fails their due diligence.
Private-SaaS Demand
Tier-1 and tier-2 buyers reject multi-tenant public SaaS for systems of record, they want SaaS economics with single-tenant isolation.
AI Feature Pressure
Buyers want AI in every workflow but won't send data to public LLMs. PrivateMind gives you private inference, per tenant.
The strategy.
Where It Applies
- FSI software vendors: capital markets, banking, insurance, asset management, wealth-tech
- Teams running three or more parallel installers across deployment topologies
- Product orgs whose roadmap velocity decays as customer count grows
- ISVs asked by FSI buyers for sovereign, DORA-aligned or private-SaaS options
Honest Edge Cases
- Sub-microsecond order-execution cores — keep on bare metal; the surrounding stack still applies
- Heavy desktop client applications — server tier yes, client tier no
- Products with single-tenant assumptions too deep for the private-SaaS shape
One image, three shapes.
Every customer runs the same signed, scanned, version-pinned image. You own the software; Options owns the platform, the 24/7 operations and the inherited compliance.
Customer-Managed
Your customer's platform team runs the image on their own OpenShift — data centre, cloud or colo. You ship the artifact; they own operations.
Options-Managed Dedicated
Options PodOps operates OpenShift for them — in their environment or on Options Dedicated. For firms who want OpenShift but can't staff 24/7 ops.
Private SaaS
Options runs the image in a per-customer isolated namespace on Advanced. SaaS economics, single-tenant isolation, named-tenant compliance.
The containerization path.
After the sandbox, production runs in four phases with a defined exit gate at each, nothing advances without sign-off. A typical engagement runs about 16 weeks.
Containerize At Scale (wks 1–8)
The Factory Migration team works with your engineers to bring the remaining modules into containers — hardened pipelines, Helm charts and Operators, config as declarative manifests. Output: one signed, scanned, version-pinned distribution.
Multi-Shape Packaging (wks 6–10)
The same distribution is packaged for all three shapes: a downloadable bundle with runbooks, a PodOps deployment template, and a per-tenant provisioning workflow on Advanced.
Compliance Hardening (wks 8–12)
Options produces the inherited-control docs — SOC 2 bridge letter, DORA Article 28 register template, network diagrams, platform incident-response runbook. You add the application-layer evidence.
Cutover & Operations (wks 12–16)
The first reference customer goes live in their chosen shape. PodOps takes platform ops; your support team is retrained to escalate cleanly. A 90-day review confirms the numbers.
How it runs on OMC.
Whichever shape a customer picks, the image lands on the same four-layer stack. Private SaaS runs on Advanced; the tier changes worker isolation, not the foundation.
Standard
Shared, multi-tenant OpenShift under one Options compliance policy. Code-ready on day one.
Advanced
Dedicated worker pools, host control-plane isolation, and your CI/CD or ours. Where private-SaaS per-customer namespaces run.
Dedicated
Single-tenant bare metal, designed in. Capacity, network and compliance scoped to your firm.
PodOps managed service
Options FSI hardening
Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes
Validation Sandbox.
A 30-day, fixed-fee engagement that containerizes one core module on the platform and hands you the evidence: a core comparison against your VM baseline, a compliance-inheritance map, and a reference architecture for all three shapes.
- ✓ No procurement, no lock-in, no obligation to continue
- ✓ One module, measured against your own VM baseline
- ✓ Compliance-inheritance map and 3-shape reference architecture
A build-or-walk-away decision at day 30 — not a free pilot, not a forever-evaluation.
Proof and business case.
Current vs target: one pipeline instead of four, one inherited compliance pack plus one app pack, cores down 40–60%. Break-even under nine months for ISVs with 3+ customers, 200+ cores and 30+ engineers (illustrative — validated in the sandbox).
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