Platform9, the company making private clouds easy,
today announced beta support for OpenStack Neutron, providing customers
with a turnkey solution for dynamically provisioning networks within
vSphere and KVM environments. The company also announced general
availability of its support for OpenStack Heat for orchestration as well
as for OpenStack Ceilometer for programmatic alerts and event
notifications.
Today's announcements follow the company's support for
OpenStack Cinder last month, which enables customers to leverage the
storage subsystem of their choice to provide persistent block storage in
their vSphere- or KVM-powered private cloud. All of these capabilities
further strengthen Platform9's unique managed private cloud solution,
providing out-of-the-box automation that eliminates complex manual
processes and the need for specialized skills, simplifying and
accelerating IT service delivery.
"Customers are excited by the power and potential of
OpenStack, but they are often derailed by its complexity and lack the
specific skills to stand up and maintain an OpenStack-powered private
cloud," said Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 co-founder and vice president
of products. "Today's news demonstrates how we continue to make private
clouds easy for customers. For example, network provisioning with
Neutron -- which has been one of our most highly requested and
anticipated new features to date -- is a simple wizard-driven exercise
with Platform9. It takes just minutes, not hours or days, and can be
accomplished with zero knowledge of OpenStack. It just works."
OpenStack Neutron is a major component within the OpenStack
private cloud framework, exposing a range of network provisioning
functionality such as creating networks, virtual routers, configurations
such as security groups, load balancers and more. Typically, IT teams
find it exceedingly difficult to architect and integrate Neutron to work
at scale in production, often contributing to stalled private cloud
projects. Platform9 removes these barriers with built-in support for
common network configurations such as Open vSwitch (OVS) and VMware's
Distributed Virtual Switch (VDS) that work out of the box and are backed
with a service-level agreement (SLA).
Enabling "Infrastructure as Code" with Orchestration
Many organizations are modernizing operational
processes, transitioning from manually provisioned workloads to an
infrastructure-as-code paradigm in which cloud-based applications
consume infrastructure as code. Similar to AWS CloudFormations,
OpenStack Heat supports application blueprints that enable specifying
infrastructure requirements for modern applications via a markup
language, with the Heat framework automating the provisioning of
infrastructure across OpenStack services as the application is deployed.
By adding support for OpenStack Heat, Platform9 makes it easy for the
large installed base of VMware and Linux customers to start their
transformation from a static IT environment toward
infrastructure-as-code within their private cloud environments.
Programmatic Alerts and Notifications
In addition, Platform9's support for OpenStack
Ceilometer is now generally available, enabling the use of programmatic
alerts and event notifications. These in turn can be used to trigger
orchestration policies via Heat.
Product Availability
Platform9 support for OpenStack Neutron will be
generally available in the first half of 2016. Support for OpenStack
Heat, OpenStack Ceilometer, and OpenStack Cinder is generally available
now.