Mirantis announced an update to
Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes
(MOSK) that delivers early access to production-grade OpenStack Yoga,
delivers new security features, improves backups and storage management -
making it easier than ever to run resilient OpenStack clouds at scale.
MOSK hardens the open source OpenStack as the basis for mission-critical
operations. It removes the typical challenges of OpenStack cluster
deployment and operations with an easy-to-use virtualization platform -
containerized and optimally configured for Kubernetes. MOSK enables
digital infrastructure for cloud native and traditional applications
which ensures reliability and enables full control over data. MOSK
provides centralized logging, monitoring, and alerting, along with
tooling to automate management of the underlying infrastructure, from
server provisioning to software configuration.
"Hardening the open source base requires significant time and effort to
ensure our customers have a deployable, reliable distribution on which
they can base their mission-critical operations," said Roman Zhnichkov,
director of engineering, Mirantis. "The new security-related
enhancements and ease-of-use features continue our focus on providing
our customers with the most secure infrastructure possible, while
simplifying their day-to-day operations."
The MOSK update also adds a number of enhancements to continue to reduce
operational burdens, making running enterprise OpenStack infrastructure
simpler, less error-prone, and requiring less time than before. For
example:
- Support for the Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) specification is
added for all core MOSK services - compute (Nova), block storage
(Cinder), images (Glance), networking (Neutron), orchestration (Heat),
DNS (Designate), bare metal (Ironic), and load balancing (Octavia). This
enhances security by providing full transparency to see who is doing
what in the compute infrastructure and maintain that data for audit and
threat analysis.
- A Security Guide that provides extensive instructions for all common
security-related needs. It will help users navigate and utilize all the
security features available in MOSK.
In addition, Mirantis has made it easier to evaluate MOSK with the introduction of TryMOSK. Leveraging the Equinix Metal
platform, it shortcuts the process of OpenStack cloud design and
deployment, and especially its most complicated steps: hardware
provisioning and configuration and network infrastructure setup, which
typically takes several experienced engineers at least a week to set up.