White Paper

Looking to automate your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workload and wondering how OpenStack can help? This white paper captures best practices for running a smoothly integrated CI/CD environment using OpenStack, using lessons take from running a large-scale private cloud internally at Platform9. You will learn about: Basic requirements for setting up your CI/CD workflow with

You’ve heard the buzz about OpenStack. But what are the specific ways in which it will benefit your team? In this white paper, you’ll 7 specific ways in which OpenStack will save time, reduce costs, and improve the security of your KVM-virtualized environment: This white paper is useful for IT professionals who desire to: Improve

Many VMware customers want to deliver private clouds with self-service provisioning for their users. They also want to deploy newer applications that require programmatic access to infrastructure to enable cloud-native design patterns, such as dynamically scaling applications based on workload. In this white paper, we will discuss how OpenStack can be used as a cloud

IT teams are considering public cloud providers like AWS to satisfy growing user demand for self-service access to infrastructure, automation, and more. But for some, concerns around security, unpredictable costs, and data gravity/lock-in require IT to consider approaches that leverage on-premises infrastructure. Often, virtualized infrastructure is already in place, raising the question of how to

Private clouds provide a valuable opportunity for VMware customers to increase the utility of their existing vSphere infrastructure. Those considering OpenStack to achieve automation, self-service, and programmatic infrastructure access may wonder how Platform9 Managed OpenStack for vSphere (Platform9) compares with VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO). This brief will explain some of the key features that differentiate

Get an overview of the different open source tools to install OpenStack and their pros/cons. To help you make an informed decision, we’ve put together this guide to cover some of the popular OpenStack installation tools like DevStack, RDO Packstack, OpenStack-Ansible, Fuel and TripleO.

Private clouds provide a valuable opportunity for VMware customers to increase the utility of their existing vSphere infrastructure by enabling self-service and programmatic access to infrastructure for end users. This white paper examines two private cloud solutions for VMware vSphere users – Platform9 Managed OpenStack for vSphere (Platform9) and VMware vRealize Automation (vRA) – comparing

This Tech Guide explores five design patterns for deploying OpenStack, providing criteria for evaluation, relative strengths and weaknesses of the different approaches, and a checklist comparing the various options and the vendors who provide solutions for each.