Mirantis, a pure-play OpenStack company, is collaborating with Google and Intel to evolve the architecture of the purpose-built lifecycle management tool for OpenStack, Fuel, and related OpenStack projects.
This move is to enable Kubernetes to be used 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,”said Mirantis’ CMO, Boris Renski.
Google senior product manager, Craig McLuckie added, “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.”
Jonathan Donaldson, Intel VP & GM, Software Defined Infrastructure Group, commented, “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.”
Mirantis will become an active contributor to the Kubernetes project to further support Kubernetes on OpenStack, aiming to become a top contributor over the next year. Mirantis has already joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project and organisation dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native applications and services, as a Silver member.
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