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OpenStack

Avoid vendor lock-in with the open-source standard for managing virtualized workloads, optimized for rapid deployment with Wind River Cloud Platform.

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OpenStack Deployed on Wind River Cloud Platform

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  • Lifecycle Management Capabilities: We offer a fully managed virtualization solution for Day 1 and Day 2 operations, including installation, zero-touch provisioning, inventory management, updates, and fault management.
  • Production Readiness: OpenStack technology is provided as a deployment-ready add-on to Wind River Cloud Platform, with commercial testing, hardening, lifecycle support and maintenance.
  • Deployment Flexibility: Packaged as a set of modular containers, Wind River OpenStack can run on the same controller node and Wind River Cloud Platform Kubernetes environment. This way, a single controller node can support both CNF and VNF workloads, offering cloud-native flexibility, small footprint, and simultaneous support for multiple virtualization types.
  • High Availability, Performance and Scalability: Deployment options range from single-node OpenStack (ideal for applications requiring small edge clouds) to high-availability configurations supported with just two servers. It can scale to support large, distributed clouds with thousands of geo-distributed nodes.

Key Features

With a range of deployment configurations, Wind River OpenStack provides a single solution to deploy your virtualized applications, regardless of where they are located. It is a private cloud software product that is deployed as a containerized application on Wind River Cloud Platform. Key features include:

  • Deploys as a containerized Kubernetes application to ease deployment and updates
  • Provides a hybrid cluster for hosting both containerized and virtualized workloads
  • Supports key OpenStack services such as Nova, Cinder, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Swift, Horizon, and HeatOVA, CINDER, NEUTRON, KEYSTONE, GLANCE, SWIFT, HORIZON and HEAT
  • Follows an upstream-first development model within the StarlingX project of the OpenStack Foundation
  • Supports live migration of virtual machines
  • Provides high availability, performance, and low latency for demanding mission-critical use cases
  • Supports a wide range of deployment configurations, including standalone and highly distributed cloud configurations
  • Supports a wide range of guest OSes

OpenStack, as a containerized service, offers significant advantages in cloud computing performance, lifecycle management, availability, and operational efficiency.

A Foundation in Open Source Software

Wind River OpenStack and Wind River Cloud Platform are both commercially supported products derived from the StarlingX open source project. StarlingX is a best-of-breed integration of multiple open source projects, including Kubernetes and OpenStack, that solves the operational problems of deploying and managing containerized and virtualized workloads in distributed clouds.

OpenStack

  • Comprised of open source software components for building cloud infrastructure with a set of common services for compute, storage, and networking
  • Supports deployment of components individually or together, making it highly customizable and scalable
  • Maintained by a large global community of developers and users, ensuring ongoing innovation

StarlingX

  • Integrates components from other established open source projects, hardened and optimized for distributed cloud environments
  • Includes projects such as OpenStack, Ceph, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Linux
  • Supports mission-critical cloud applications and services
  • Has a community hosted by the OpenInfra Foundation

Kubernetes

  • Presents a framework for open source container management and automation
  • Manages the lifecycle of containerized applications
  • Is developed and maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

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