Mirantis<\/a>, one of the earliest players in the OpenStack ecosystem, today announced that it will end-of-life Mirantis OpenStack support in September 2019. The Mirantis Cloud Platform, which combines OpenStack with the Kubernetes container platform (or which could even be used to run Kubernetes separately), is going to take its place.<\/p>\nWhile Mirantis is obviously not getting out of the OpenStack game, this move clearly shows that there is a growing interest in the Kubernetes container platform and that Mirantis\u2019\u00a0customers are now starting to look at this\u00a0as a way to modernize their software deployment strategies without going to OpenStack. The new platform allows users to deploy multiple Kubernetes clusters side-by-side with OpenStack \u2014 or separately.<\/p>\n
The company is also changing how it delivers its new platform.\u00a0The company will operate its customers Mirantis Cloud Platform deployments for them for at least six months and then hand it over to the customers\u2019 ops team. \u201cThe delivery model ensures that not just the software, but also the customer\u2019s team and process are aligned with DevOps best practices,\u201d the company argues in its announcement today. Updates, too, will come at a regular pace and faster and more painlessly than\u00a0customers were previously accustomed to with its OpenStack solution.<\/p>\n
When I asked Mirantis co-founder and CMO\u00a0Boris Renski, who isn\u2019t known for holding back on his opinions, about the OpenStack vs. Kubernetes discussion, he noted that \u201cit\u2019s important to distinguish between popularity and value. Popular kids in high school aren\u2019t always the ones that end up driving a Ferrari when adults. It\u2019s true that OpenStack is no longer the popular kid; Kubernetes is \u2014 and customers often like to go with what\u2019s popular.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that Mirantis is seeing more customers who are\u00a0looking to sidestep OpenStack with Kubernetes (which is similar to what Canonical\u2019s Dustin Kirkland told me earlier this month, too). \u201cAlso, when OpenStack was \u2018the thing,\u2019 we saw customers trying to sidestep everything in the data center with OpenStack \u2014 and failing,\u201d Renski added. \u201cThe key is to use the right tool for the job: Kubernetes today is good for containers; OpenStack \u2013 for VMs. Maybe tomorrow<\/span><\/span> AWS will open source Lambda and will see that sidestepping Kubernetes and containers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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