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Wind River OpenStack
Wind River
OpenStack
Use Wind River Cloud Platform to avoid vendor lock-in, using the open-source standard for managing virtualized workloads, optimized for rapid deployment.
OpenStack Deployed on Wind River Cloud Platform
- 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)
Resources
Blog
Using OpenStack as a containerized service in StarlingX offers significant advantages in cloud computing platforms’ performance, lifecycle management, availability, and operational efficiency.
Blog
Two of Wind River’s foremost OpenStack experts, Chris Friesen and Ian Jolliffe, will present this session and explain how to use OpenStack successfully in challenging 5G applications.
Wind River Cloud Platform
Wind River
Cloud Platform
Wind River Cloud Platform is an open source, on-prem, private cloud solution for virtualized and containerized applications.
Wind River Cloud Platform enables enterprise and telecommunications firms to deploy and manage complex cloud architectures in the most mission-critical environments. The platform provides a production-grade, distributed Kubernetes solution for container and VM workloads – along with time-saving orchestration, automation, and analytics tools. It gives organizations the cost efficiency they demand and the award-winning customer support and service they need.
Wind River Cloud Platform
Wind River Cloud Platform includes an integrated cloud platform, automated operations composer, and analytics capabilities that help private cloud operations teams to deploy and manage cloud networks globally.
Lifecyle management and
automation at scale
Support automated Day 0 to Day 2 operations across complex distributed cloud topologies.
ANALYTICS KEEP THE CLOUD UP
& OPTIMIZED
Manage a distributed cloud network effectively using AL/ML-generated insights for intelligent and automated decision making.
OPENSTACK SERVICES TO MANAGE
VIRTUALIZED APPLICATIONS
Use a containerized OpenStack control plane for management of Virtual Machine infrastructure.
How Wind River Cloud Platform Benefits Your Organization
- Cost efficiency: Because of Wind River Cloud Platform’s simplified licensing, smaller footprint, reduced hardware costs, and lower operational costs, you can reduce your Total Cost of Ownership for cloud infrastructure.
- Fully supported open source technology: You can avoid vendor lock-in with commercialized open source from StarlingX, OpenStack, and Kubernetes. And you are fully supported by Wind River’s award-winning customer support and service. You can be confident of getting regular updates and that someone can always be available to answer your questions.
- Support for containers and VMs: Manage virtualized and containerized workloads from a single technology stack and management toolset.
- Simplified lifecycle management: Stress-free infrastructure and workload operations include Day 0 to Day 2 automation across distributed cloud configurations.
- Scalable for any size enterprise: Wind River Cloud Platform works for any organization, from small edge nodes to large enterprise data centers, using the same management and orchestration tools.
- Designed for Edge and Enterprise: Deployed in small footprint, low-latency, mission critical, and highly distributed architectures with remote management and up to six 9s reliability.
Automate the deployment and orchestration of your private cloud and manage both containers and VMs from a single management interface
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Learn how easy it is to migrate virtualized workloads from VMware vSphere to Wind River® Cloud Platform.
Blog
Learn what StarlingX is, what it’s suitable for, and how it can address your company’s cloud computing needs.
Video
See how easy it is to perform a single click deployment of OpenStack, in a complex distributed cloud configuring that includes OpenStack, KubeVirt, and Kubernetes.
