{"id":14913,"date":"2019-04-29T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/mirantis-makes-configuring-on-premises-clouds-easier.html"},"modified":"2019-04-29T18:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T18:03:20","slug":"mirantis-makes-configuring-on-premises-clouds-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/mirantis-makes-configuring-on-premises-clouds-easier.html","title":{"rendered":"Mirantis makes configuring on-premises clouds easier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirantis<\/a>, the company you may still remember as one of the biggest players in the early days of OpenStack, launched an interesting new hosted SaaS service today that makes it easier for enterprises to build and deploy their on-premises clouds. The new Mirantis <\/a> Model Designer, which is available for free, lets operators easily customize their clouds \u2014 starting with OpenStack clouds next month and Kubernetes clusters in the coming months \u2014 and build the configurations to deploy them.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Typically, doing so involves writing lots of YAML files by hand, something that\u2019s error-prone and few developers love. Yet that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s at the core of the infrastructure-as-code model. Model Designer, on the other hand, takes what Mirantis learned from its highly popular Fuel installer for OpenStack and takes it a step further. The Model Designer, which Mirantis co-founder and CMO Boris Renski demoed for me ahead of today\u2019s announcement, presents users with a GUI interface that walks them through the configuration steps. What\u2019s smart here is that every step has a difficulty level (modeled after Doom\u2019s levels, ranging from \u201cI\u2019m too young to die\u201d to \u201cultraviolence\u201d \u2014 though it\u2019s missing Dooms \u201cnightmare\u201d setting), which you can choose based on how much you want to customize the setting.<\/p>\n

Model Designer is an opinionated tool, but it does give users quite a bit of freedom, too. Once the configuration step is done, Mirantis actually takes the settings and runs them through its Jenkins automation server to validate the configuration. As Renski pointed out, that step can\u2019t take into account all of the idiosyncrasies of every platform, but it can ensure that the files are correct. After this, the tool provides the user with the configuration files, and actually deploying the OpenStack <\/a> cloud is then simply a matter of taking the files, together with the core binaries that Mirantis makes available for download, to the on-premises cloud and executing a command-line script. Ideally, that\u2019s all there is to the process. At this point, Mirantis\u2019 DriveTrain tools take over and provision the cloud. For upgrades, users simply have to repeat the process.<\/p>\n

Mirantis\u2019 monetization strategy is to offer support, which ranges from basic support to fully managing a customer\u2019s cloud. Model Designer is yet another way for the company to make more users aware of itself and then offer them support as they start using more of the company\u2019s tools.<\/p>\n

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