Mirantis has a long history, dating back to its days as an OpenStack startup. However, in recent years, the firm has embraced cloud-native development technologies such as containers, microservices, and Kubernetes. Mirantis Flow, a fully managed open-source set of services designed to assist enterprises to manage a cloud-native data center environment, whether on-prem or in the public cloud, was unveiled today.
Adrian Ionel, CEO and co-founder of Mirantis, noted, “We’re about bringing to clients an open source-based cloud-to-cloud experience in the data center, on the edge, and interoperable with public clouds.”
He points out that the world’s largest corporations, known as hyperscalers, such as Facebook, Netflix, and Apple, have all found out how to operate in a hybrid cloud-native world, but that most businesses lack the resources of these major enterprises. Mirantis Flow aims to bring the same capabilities that major firms have to smaller businesses.
While huge infrastructure cloud suppliers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google were created to address this issue, Ionel claims that they are less open and more proprietary. This can lead to lock-in, which today’s big businesses are desperately trying to avoid. “[Large infrastructure providers] will bind you to their stack and APIs. They aren’t built on open source standards or technology; therefore you’re stuck with a single source when most large businesses nowadays are adopting a multi-cloud strategy. He stated, “They want infrastructure flexibility.”
They accomplish this by combining a number of open source solutions into a single service. “As part of the same fabric, we provide virtualization. We also offer software-defined networking, software-defined storage, and CI/CD technology, as well as DevOps as a service, allowing enterprises to automate the entire software development pipeline,” he added.
The service includes “Mirantis Container Cloud, Mirantis OpenStack, and Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, all workloads are available for migration to cloud-native infrastructure, whether they are traditional virtual machine workloads or containerized workloads,” according to a blog post published today by the company.
Companies concerned about their VMware virtual machines to this solution may rest assured, according to Ionel, that these VMs have been successfully moved to the Mirantis solution in early customers. “This is a really straightforward conversion of the virtual machine from VMware standard to an open standard, and there is no reason why any application or workload should not function on this infrastructure — and we’ve seen it in a lot of clients. As a result, we don’t see any bottlenecks for people to go quickly,” he said.
