Mirantis, the pure-play OpenStack company, today released the technical preview of
Mirantis OpenStack 6.0, the quickest and easiest way to consume
OpenStack Juno.
The technical preview lets developers and operators get started with
Juno's expanded and hardened feature set, including advancements in
network functions virtualization and big data -- all in an
out-of-the-box distribution that "just works."
Mirantis OpenStack is the most open and flexible distribution
of OpenStack on the market. It lets customers deploy an
enterprise-grade, zero lock-in OpenStack infrastructure in minutes, and
is used by some of the most recognized enterprises in the world,
including Symantec, Ericsson, and Expedia.
"Mirantis makes OpenStack simple. We use the distribution in
production with a cluster capable of supporting at least 1000 VMs, and
running just under 400," said Pixafy
DevOps Engineer, Charlie O'Leary, a Mirantis customer. "Fuel, combined
with Mirantis' 24x7 support, is phenomenal. It gives us a great
high-level view of our environment in one place, and the way it manages
our overall infrastructure makes things easier on our team."
"Mirantis is a top three contributor OpenStack Juno, with
about 100 engineers engaged in upstream work," said Mirantis' CEO,
Adrian Ionel. "We plan to double our contribution next year, focused on
ease of use and operation."
OpenStack Juno brings data processing to the cloud with Sahara,
an Openstack project that lets users provision Hadoop clusters.
Mirantis is the original initiator of and a top contributor to the
Sahara project, and has shipped Sahara as a commercial component of the
Mirantis OpenStack distribution since 2013.
Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 will be generally available in 60-90 days. To download the technical preview, visit: https://software.mirantis.com/6-0-openstack-juno-tech-preview/