Umbrella for the K8Box family
EU-sovereign platform building blocks — and consulting that takes architecture seriously.
The Chameleon Way IT GmbH builds a small family of well-scoped SaaS building blocks for European mid-sized businesses — and advises CTOs who want to migrate their platform out of the hyperscaler stack without falling into the next lock-in.
Five building blocks. One family.
Each product solves exactly one problem — and works on its own or alongside the others. They all run on Hetzner metal in the EU, none of them have a US hyperscaler in the dependency chain, and every contract bills in EUR.
Production K8s for SMBs without the cloud bill or the on-call rotation. Hetzner metal, Talos, Cilium.
k8box.io → Atrium IdentityOIDC identity for SaaS founders who don't want to babysit Keycloak. Multi-tenant, OIDC, token exchange.
atrium.k8box.io → Tally BillingEU-sovereign billing in EUR — without Stripe lock-in, GoBD-clean from day one.
tally.k8box.io → Spectrum TelemetryBehavioural telemetry that stays in Europe. No GA, no Mixpanel, no Amplitude.
spectrum.k8box.io → TCW Lab CICI primitives as container images, not GitHub Actions. Reproducible, portable, no vendor lock-in.
tcwlab.com →Consulting that ships code, not slide decks.
We help mid-market CTOs with three things: architecture reviews that leave behind an ADR stack instead of an 80-page PDF. Platform implementations where we write the code with your team, not just the plan. Sovereignty migrations that lay out an honest transition path out of AWS or Azure — not the next lock-in.
What we believe.
We deploy in the EU because data residency isn't a marketing feature, it's a contract clause. We default to open source because lock-in is the enemy. We bill in EUR because that's where the customer's risk lives.