OpenStack – Key Infrastructure for Public and Private Clouds
OpenStack is perhaps the most widely used technology for building public and private clouds. More than 100 major technology companies and cloud services providers support OpenStack. This includes major vendors such as Cisco, Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Rackspace, and others. OpenStack is essentially a cloud operating system that controls computer resources, data storage, and networking throughout the entire data center. All of this can be managed from a dashboard, Horizon, that gives administrators control. OpenStack includes basic functionality for the Horizon dashboard, Compute, block storage, networking, image service, object storage, and identity services. Most important, OpenStack enables a self-service web interface to users so they can rapidly provision resources. Self-provisioning is the key. OpenStack’s self-service provisioning capabilities brings developers faster and better access to IT resources. Developers can provision machines on-demand. This significantly reduces development and testing periods. Faster deployment of IT resources also means no need to wait days or weeks to start using the services and applications requested. OpenStack also brings significant flexibility. It supports a broad mix of different proprietary technologies as well as a great variety of hypervisor and bare-metal environments. OpenStack’s ability to work with commodity components gives you greater flexibility to choose and implement your environment. Finally, OpenStack is an open source project. It is totally free to use for private and commercial use. You may pay for support but it will be a fraction of similar services from other comparable vendors. OpenStack is the biggest Open Cloud platform and Kubernetes is recognized by many as the leading container management net platform. They have deployed together well in many variations. Of course, OpenStack infrastructure is at risk for many of the current cloud threats. We have seen in recent news that cloud misconfiguration can impact any cloud provider and any cloud platform. Container infrastructure using Kubernetes and other container technologies is also highly vulnerable to cloud threats. Cloud access security brokers (CASB+) provide the essential visibility, data protection, threat protection, and compliance that you need to secure your clouds and will work well in hand with your OpenStack deployment. The defense afforded by the strong data protection of CASB+ adds resilience and defense to your OpenStack cloud infrastructure. To find out more about CipherCloud and OpenStack, reach out to us here at CipherCloud. We’re glad to help.
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