What is OpenMetal?
OpenMetal is an open source alternative to conventional public and private clouds. It delivers a private cloud, built on OpenStack + Ceph, on-demand and in less than one minute, to combine private cloud benefits with the convenience of public cloud use.
OpenMetal can be used to launch a production-ready cloud in 45 seconds without a significant hardware investment or steep learning curve. OpenMetal states their mission is to make OpenStack accessible to everyone. They further state that companies that are currently using public clouds, but are looking for a new cloud deployment model with more flexibility and control are ideal candidates for the platform. Other potential fits include businesses that are running their own on-premises infrastructure, but are looking to migrate to the cloud. OpenMetal's clients span a wide range of industries and use cases including SaaS providers, hosting and public cloud providers, managed service providers, and organizations that need to reduce cloud costs, find a public cloud alternative, build big data infrastructure, find S3 alternatives, run Kubernetes workloads, or launch large IaaS deployments.
OpenMetal can be used to launch a production-ready cloud in 45 seconds without a significant hardware investment or steep learning curve. OpenMetal states their mission is to make OpenStack accessible to everyone. They further state that companies that are currently using public clouds, but are looking for a new cloud deployment model with more flexibility and control are ideal candidates for the platform. Other potential fits include businesses that are running their own on-premises infrastructure, but are looking to migrate to the cloud. OpenMetal's clients span a wide range of industries and use cases including SaaS providers, hosting and public cloud providers, managed service providers, and organizations that need to reduce cloud costs, find a public cloud alternative, build big data infrastructure, find S3 alternatives, run Kubernetes workloads, or launch large IaaS deployments.
- Open Source Involvement:
OpenMetal is a Silver Member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation and an Infrastructure Donor to the Open Infrastructure Foundation. OpenMetal evangelizes for, and promotes, OpenStack and the adoption of open source technologies. OpenMetal boasts a long pedigree of contributions to open source projects thanks to parent company InMotion Hosting’s decades-long commitment to open source projects like WordPress and Joomla. Members of the team have also contributed to various open-source projects (either through bug reports or fixes), such as PHP, Kolla-Ansible, Ironic, and others.
- Technologies:
The OpenMetal team uses a wide variety of open source technologies to power its open infrastructure environment including but not limited to Linux, CentOS 8 Stream, Python, Ansible, Kolla, Kolla-Ansible, Docker, Ceph, OpenStack, JavaScript, Angular, PHP, NGINX, Kubernetes, Packer, and Prometheus.
Benefits:
- Tenant First Goals
- Private Security Model
- Root Control
- Hardware Dedicated to You
- Hardware Tuning
- Custom Flavors
- Fair Egress Costs
- No Surprise Billing
- Pay as You Go
- Launch Instantly
- Self Service Purchasing
- Rapid Scaling
- Rapid PoCs
- Easy Multi-Region
- Instant Provisioning
- No Hardware Management
- No License Costs
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