OpenStack News and Articles

Canonical Sunbeam Extends OpenStack to Small Cloud Environments

23.06.2023

Sunbeam offers deployment and operational tooling for OpenStack.

cloud , Kubernetes , OpenStack
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Alternative virtualization solutions when OpenStack is too much

Plan B free

OpenStack is considered the industry standard for building private clouds, but the solution is still far too complex and too difficult to maintain and operate for many applications. What causes OpenStack projects to fail, and what alternatives do administrators have?
Cloud Computing , OpenStack , Virtualization
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Storage cluster management with LINSTOR

Digital Warehouse free

LINSTOR is a toolkit for automated cluster management that takes the complexity out of DRBD management and offers a wide range of functions, including provisioning and snapshots.
Docker , Kubernetes , Open Source , OpenStack , Storage
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Five Kubernetes alternatives

Something Else free

Many admins consider Kubernetes the obvious choice for managing containers; however, don't ignore the highly efficient alternatives just because they are less prominent.
Google , Kubernetes , Linux , Open Source , OpenStack
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The new version of Chef Automate comes with many new features

Robot Admin free

Chef, one of the oldest automation solutions, seeks to become a universal administration robot for cloud environments with new version 2.0.
Ansible , automation , Ceph , OpenStack
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Automated OpenStack instance configuration with cloud-init and metadata service

Cloud Creator free

Today's OpenStack has become a mature product with automated asset configuration tools, including cloud-init, a powerful script that saves time by automatically configuring a large number of virtual servers in the cloud.
cloud , metadata , OpenStack , scripting
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Interoperability across clouds

Conductors Wanted free

ARIA TOSCA provides an environment for developing, testing, validating, and executing TOSCA templates and service descriptions, for the elimination of incompatibilities between cloud solutions and to increase interoperability.
Cloud Computing , interoperability , OpenStack , Puppet
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Proxmox virtualization manager

Cloudless free

Proxmox has been working for years on their virtualization manager that does not require a cloud. We look at the improved reliability and new features in version 5.0.
OpenStack , Virtualization
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Combining containers and OpenStack

Interaction free

The OpenStack cosmos cannot ignore the trend toward containers. If you want to combine both technologies, projects like Magnum, Kolla, and Zun come into play. Which one?
Cloud Computing , container , OpenStack
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OpenStack Trove for users, sys admins, and database admins

Semiautomatic free

Trove brings DBaaS to OpenStack; however, the service needs meaningful configuration for optimum performance.
DBaaS , OpenStack , Performance
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