In earlier posts in the Automating Private Cloud Director series, I covered the Private Cloud Director (PCD) API, Terraform, Ansible, and enterprise integration patterns. Those posts focused on the primitives: the interfaces and tools you use to drive PCD programmatically. In this post, I’d like to shift from primitives to patterns, and specifically to the
· May 6, 2026 · 6 min readThis is the fourth post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. The previous posts covered the foundational toolchain: API authentication, Terraform for infrastructure provisioning, and Ansible for infrastructure & post-deployment configuration. Those capabilities are sufficient for many organizations. But in enterprises with compliance requirements, regulated workloads, or large IT teams, “anyone can deploy from
· April 29, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the third post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. In the first post, I covered the API surface and authentication. In the second, I walked through deploying a VM with Terraform. In this post, I’d like to cover Ansible. Where Terraform excels at declaring infrastructure state (“I want this VM, this volume,
· April 20, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the second post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. In the first post, I covered the Private Cloud Director (PCD) API surface, how authentication works under the hood, and using the CLI. In this post, I’d like to walk through something practical: installing Terraform, pointing it at your PCD environment, and deploying
· April 15, 2026 · 8 min readThis is the first post in the Automating Private Cloud Director series. Everything you can do in the Private Cloud Director (PCD) UI, you can do through an API. Creating VMs, managing networks, configuring storage, assigning users to tenants. All of it. That’s not an afterthought; the UI itself is an API client. In this
· April 6, 2026 · 7 min readIf you’re evaluating a VMware alternative, monitoring is one of the first topics that comes up. It’s a capability that quietly blocks a migration if it’s missing. Your team already has dashboards, alerting rules, and capacity planning workflows built around vCenter and vROps. The question isn’t whether Private Cloud Director (PCD) has monitoring. It’s whether
· April 2, 2026 · 6 min readExecutive Summary Private Cloud Director (PCD) now provides built-in audit logging for core platform services, accessible through the UI and API. Audit logs capture administrative and operational actions across Identity, Compute, and Networking services, giving infrastructure teams a centralized record of who did what, when, and from where. This capability supports compliance workflows, change tracking,
· March 16, 2026 · 4 min readExecutive Summary Private Cloud Director uses KVM as its hypervisor and QCOW2 as its native disk format. This architectural choice decouples the hypervisor, disk format, and storage layers eliminating the tight interdependencies that characterize the vSphere stack and providing infrastructure teams with a non-proprietary foundation for their virtual machine workloads. Because every layer in the
· March 6, 2026 · 6 min readLast week, Platform9 hosted a live webinar demonstrating vJailbreak‘s VM migration capabilities. What began as a straightforward product demonstration evolved into a substantive discussion about the requirements for safely migrating production workloads away from VMware. We migrated a Windows 10 VM from vCenter to Private Cloud Director in under 19 minutes during the live session,
· February 27, 2026 · 8 min readWe recently hosted a live webinar where we walked through a real VM migration from vCenter to Private Cloud Director using vJailbreak, and the response was overwhelming. Not just in attendance, but in the quality of questions and the post-event survey data. The audience wasn’t just browsing. They were planning. In this post, I’d like
· February 26, 2026 · 5 min readIf you’re considering a VMware alternative but require Veeam integration, we’re pleased to announce that Veeam Data Platform’s native integration with Platform9’s Private Cloud Director is in beta. The Universal Hypervisor API Veeam has built a Universal Hypervisor API based on oVirt, and Platform9 has implemented an adapter that translates those oVirt APIs to work
· February 5, 2026 · 4 min readWell, I missed an opportunity to talk about Private Cloud Director, Community Edition. Mea culpa. Mea culpa. But the saying is “better late than never”, so here we are. Last month we released our latest version of Community Edition (CE). It’s 2025.8, known as “August” in our Slack. We released at the end of August,
· October 14, 2025 · 3 min read