OpenMetal Community
Hosted OpenStack
The OpenMetal Community includes hosted OpenStack and OpenStack-as-a-Service providers for those who want to take advantage of OpenStack without the hassle of infrastructure management.
Get Help with Open Source Solutions
While open source solutions like OpenStack have become increasingly popular for their flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and community support, they can be challenging to implement and manage completely on your own. Hosted OpenStack providers allow you to quickly reap the benefits of OpenStack while removing much of its complexity.
The following providers are recommended for their commitment to the open source community by delivering reliable and powerful OpenStack hosting services.
Overview
We would be remiss to not include ourselves on this list! OpenMetal pioneered the on-demand hosted private OpenStack cloud, allowing users to deploy a production-ready cloud environment in under one minute.
Our goal is to make OpenStack accessible to everyone. OpenStack has a reputation as being too complex and demanding to be viable for smaller teams. By managing the underlying infrastructure and deployment, we’ve been able to make OpenStack useable for small organizations and even individuals.
All OpenStack clouds start with a Private Cloud Core (PCC). A PCC is a hyper-converged set of 3 servers of your chosen hardware type. The PCC is set up using Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible. You can extend and customize your cloud as you have root ownership.
Of note, all PCCs can be used for both public cloud and private cloud workloads. This is the power of the OpenStack cloud platform. PCCs provide HA control plane, HA block, HA object storage, and compute with all core OpenStack components plus more.
Overview
Red Hat® OpenStack® Platform is a cloud computing platform that virtualizes resources from industry-standard hardware, organizes those resources into clouds, and manages them so users can access what they need—when they need it.
Red Hat® OpenStack® brings together open, community-powered innovation with enterprise scale and confidence—empowering businesses to deliver new, differentiated applications and services on a flexible, scalable, and proven OpenStack public or private cloud environment.
Their platform gives you the features and functions to construct a scalable, flexible cloud environment based on proven, integrated technologies from the core to the edge of the cloud infrastructure. Cloud infrastructure with Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides a proven foundation for today’s critical workloads and a future path to a hybrid cloud, the cloud edge, and beyond.
Why We Recommend Them
Red Hat has long been one of the most reputable and respected providers in the open source world. They are the leading contributor to the OpenStack project! Their deep commitment to providing an enterprise-grade, tested, and validated OpenStack platform is the reason we recommend them.
Overview
Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack is an enterprise cloud platform optimized for price-performance and designed to run mission-critical workloads.
Canonical delivers pure upstream, fully automated and upgradable OpenStack distribution, including beta and latest stable releases with long-term security and support commitment to effectively bridge the gap between developers and enterprises.
Why We Recommend Them
Canonical is a long-term member of the OpenStack community, one of the top contributors to the OpenStack code, and Gold Member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation. They are widely respected and trusted, along with offering a wide range of OpenStack services and support levels, and are a no-brainer addition into our Community!