
Mirantis,
the pure-play OpenStack company, today announced a collaboration with
Google and Intel to evolve the architecture of the leading purpose-built
lifecycle management tool for OpenStack, Fuel, and related OpenStack
projects, to enable for use of Kubernetes as its underlying
orchestration engine. The companies will work with the OpenStack
community to package OpenStack into Docker containers to be managed by
Kubernetes. The companies will jointly discuss the details of this
collaboration at the upcoming OpenStack Days Silicon Valley on August 9-10.
The resulting software will give users fine grain control over the
placement of services used for the OpenStack control plane and the
ability to do rolling updates of OpenStack, make the OpenStack control
plane self-healing and more resilient, and smooth the path for the
creating of microservices-based applications on OpenStack.
"With the emergence of Docker as the standard container image format and
Kubernetes as the standard for container orchestration, we are finally
seeing continuity in how people approach operations of distributed
applications. Combining Kubernetes and Fuel will open OpenStack up to a
new delivery model that allows faster consumption of updates, helping
customers get to outcomes faster." -- Mirantis CMO, Boris Renski
"Leveraging Kubernetes in Fuel will turn OpenStack into a true
microservice application, bridging the gap between legacy infrastructure
software and the next generation of application development. Many
enterprises will benefit from using containers and sophisticated cluster
management as the foundation for resilient, highly scalable
infrastructure." -- Google Senior Product Manager, Craig McLuckie
"Combined open source leadership of Intel and Mirantis will be
instrumental in bridging the OpenStack and Kubernetes communities. Our
joint efforts will marry two complementary and powerful open source
communities, making it simpler for enterprises to manage private
clouds." -- Intel VP & GM, Software Defined Infrastructure Group,
Jonathan Donaldson
To further support Kubernetes on OpenStack, Mirantis will become an
active contributor to the Kubernetes project, aiming to become a top
contributor over the next year. Mirantis has also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
a Linux Foundation project and organization dedicated to advancing the
development of cloud native applications and services, as a Silver
member.