As enterprises get more comfortable with the idea of hybrid cloud and multi-clouds, it has become critical to seamlessly manage user identities, and provide access to resources, across multiple clouds. Enterprises are using federated identity, along with single sign-on, to easily onboard users to the cloud. OpenStack Keystone federation can be set up by using […]
· June 16, 2016 · 6 min read
A previous blog gave an overview of how to configure Keystone with LDAP. Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is another very popular directory service for many enterprises. This article gives an overview of how to configure Keystone authentication using Active Directory backend. How to Integrate a AD backend in Keystone Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is based on
· June 12, 2016 · 2 min read
Keystone is a OpenStack project that implements OpenStack’s identity API and provides authentication and authorization services to identify users of the OpenStack cloud. It also provides a catalog of all other deployed OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Cinder and Glance. These services trust Keystone to create and manage user identities and credentials. For some
· June 3, 2016 · 3 min read
One of the great things about OpenStack is all the options you have for deploying it. A recent blog mentioned various deployment models – and the flowchart below may help as you decide which model is best for you. For example, if you need a highly customized OpenStack deployment, then DIY may be the way to go. Then, there’s
· June 1, 2016 · 2 min read
While the OpenStack Ceilometer project is very popular for telemetry, it’s not really a OpenStack monitoring solution. It is a data collection service designed for gathering usage data on objects managed by OpenStack (instances, volumes, networks, et al), but it does not provide an out of the box solution to monitor OpenStack errors or anomalies.
· May 24, 2016 · 8 min read
You’ve decided to move forward with OpenStack implementation to build a private cloud! Congratulations – you are in good company. According to Wikibon, true private cloud (on-premise and hosted together) is expected to grow from $7 billion in 2015 to $201 billion in 2026 (36% CAGR) and be 31% of infrastructure spend. At last month’s
· May 18, 2016 · 4 min read
If you missed Udy Gold’s presentation on the benefits of public vs. private cloud at the OpenStack Summit, here it is! If you don’t have 37 minutes to watch the entire video, here’s a quick recap of what he had to say about his “cloud-hopping” journey. Udy Gold is vice president of Data Center and
· May 11, 2016 · 7 min read
We’re very excited to announce a new release this week of Platform9 Managed OpenStack, our SaaS-based OpenStack private cloud offering! With this release, we have upgraded all components to run their respective OpenStack Liberty versions. Those familiar with OpenStack understand the pain involved with not only setting up an entire OpenStack cloud, but also managing the periodic upgrades. This
· April 28, 2016 · 3 min read
This week, we announced that Platform9 is a 2016 Cool Vendor for Cloud Management by Gartner, Inc. What does this mean for OpenStack providers and customers? In this post, I’d like to dive deeper and share three insights why this honor is significant. First OpenStack Provider Named a Cool Vendor in Cloud Management Gartner’s annual Cool Vendor honors are like the “Dean’s
· April 12, 2016 · 2 min read
Platform9 gearing up for OpenStack Summit in Austin later this month, and it is shaping up to be a great event! We are especially excited about the Platform9 OpenStack sessions that were selected for the agenda. Thanks for voting for us and mark your calendars to make sure you attend these sessions. Panel: Pros and Cons of
· April 4, 2016 · 3 min read
The Platform9 team is gearing up for the OpenStack Summit, and we’re excited to participate! We’ve proposed a handful of talks and would appreciate your support (vote!) to include our talks on the conference agenda. Click the links below to learn more about each talk and vote. See you in Austin…and may the best talks
· February 11, 2016 · 4 min read
“With Amazon Web Services I can manage multiple regions of distributed infrastructure. Can I do multi-region management with Platform9?” I get this question a lot, and I’m happy to say the answer is yes! Today we announced our multi-region management, capabilities that enable and enhance management of distributed resources from a single pane of glass within Platform9 Managed OpenStack.
· February 10, 2016 · 2 min read