On-Demand OpenStack Clouds by OpenMetal

OpenMetal is an award winning provider of open-source cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of services to meet diverse cloud infrastructure needs.

Explore the Advantages of OpenStack on OpenMetal

OpenMetal is blurring the line between public and private cloud models. Get the security, control, and cost-efficiency of a private OpenStack cloud with the ease, flexibility, and speed of a public cloud.


Full OpenStack CloudOpenStack 3 Server Starter Cluster
  • OpenStack as a Service: Deploy your own OpenStack private cloud with the speed, convenience, and scalability of public cloud.
  • Single-Tenant Environment: Operate on dedicated bare metal servers that offer the security and control you expect with a private cloud.
  • Open Source Cloud: Access and build on OpenStack to enjoy integration with Ceph storage, Kubernetes, and many other resources.
All OpenStack clouds start with a Cloud Core. OpenMetal’s Cloud Core is a hyper-converged set of 3 hosted servers of your chosen hardware type, spun up as a service.

The Cloud Core is set up using Kolla-Ansible and Ceph-Ansible. You can extend and customize your cloud as you have root ownership.

Cloud cores provide HA control plane, HA block, HA object storage, and compute with all core OpenStack components plus more.

Get Started With OpenStack

OpenStack Training Resources

USER DOCS  |  VIDEO TUTORIALS  |  CLOUD TRIALS

 

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Access OpenMetal User Docs

OpenMetal’s engineering team has created guides for OpenStack, Kubernetes on OpenStack, Automating OpenStack Infrastructure with Terraform, etc. If you’re ready to get started learning how to use or administer an OpenStack cloud, deploy a trial cloud and follow along.

Choose a Cloud Trial That’s Right for You

Learn Our Cloud

If you are just learning, request a self-serve cloud trial (up to 8 hours) to experience the cloud platform.

Create Account

Requires you to sign up with an email from a valid educational institution. Free email providers such as Gmail are not accepted at this time.

Teach Our Cloud

Classes can have access to a
2 week trial to facilitate
hands-on training.

Request Meeting

Schedule a complimentary consult to discuss your specific needs.

 

 

Request a Proof of Concept

If you are from an organization with unique needs, let our engineering team build a proof of concept.

Request PoC Trial

 

NOTE: These trials and PoCs are deployed on live cloud servers. Therefore, quantities may be limited, depending on demand. If you are not able to get into a trial immediately, you will be notified as soon as resources become available.

Who Is Using OpenStack

Many organizations from various industries are using OpenStack as part of their cloud computing infrastructure. It may be surprising to see large scale use cases such as Walmart or China Mobile, or use cases in organizations like NASA who have stringent security regulations, but the ability of organizations to fine tune and customize OpenStack in the code makes it the ideal infrastructure software for organizations with the skills on hand to optimize their cloud as needed.

OpenStack: A Powerful Alternative to VMware Workstation

Without question, VMware has a good reputation for cloud security and virtualization within a single management framework. But, given its high price point compounded with new acquisition uncertainties, now may be a good time to reevaluate your options. Let’s explore OpenStack as an alternative VMware Workstation with a complete guide on how to set up a virtualized workstation with OpenStack.

Why You Should Run Kubernetes Clusters on OpenStack

In this blog post, you’re going to learn about the key reasons why you’d want to run Kubernetes clusters on OpenStack. Michael Levan explores cost, security, and reliability as he examines if OpenStack is the right environment to run your Kubernetes clusters.

Customer Success Story: MyMiniFactory

MyMiniFactory on OpenStack 

MyMiniFactory gains operational efficiencies along with core mission alignment.

Industry: 3D Printable Object-Sharing Platform and File Hosting Community

 

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Customer Success Story

SaaS Provider Platform on OpenStack 

SaaS company achieves 50% savings by moving DevOps workloads to OpenMetal.

Industry: AI Customer Support Software as a Service (SaaS)

 

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Customer Success Story: Coder

Coder on OpenStack

Coder streamlines and enhances their remote development platform.

Industry: Software Development and Management Platform

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Convesio on OpenStack

Convesio gets control over infrastructure and reduces cloud costs more than 50%.

Industry: WordPress Hosting Platform Provider

 

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Embark on a Learning Adventure with Tech Influencers!

We highly recommend utilizing a trial cloud to put into practice what you’ve learned from these tutorials created by
freeCodeCamp, LearnLinuxTV, and more!

 

OpenStack Tutorial – Operate Your Own Private Cloud

In this Free Code Camp course you will gain a core understanding of what OpenStack is and you will learn the basics of setting up and administering OpenStack using the OpenMetal platform.

 

OpenStack Operator’s Manual

 

Best Way to Install OpenStack? 

Watch as Daniel Persson compares deploying OpenStack with OpenMetal vs his experience deploying OpenMetal manually.

 

OpenStack User Manual

 

Getting Started with OpenStack

OpenStack is awesome! Using this amazing open source project, you can build your very own private cloud. In this foundational cloud tutorial video, LearnLinuxTV and OpenMetal team up to give you some valuable information on OpenStack.

 

OpenStack User Manual

 

 

Episode 1- Introduction and Administration

In this episode, Jay goes over the series introduction and outline. He also provides you with a detailed overview of the OpenStack project Horizon. 

 

OpenStack Horizon Guides

 

Episode 2 -Launching Compute Instances

In this episode, Jay introduces you to Nova and covers everything you need to know to set up your instances 

 

OpenStack Instance Guide

 

Episode 3 – Setting Up Block Storage Volume

In this episode, Jay will introduce you to Cinder.  You will learn about attaching a volume to a compute instance, adding a partition to the new storage volume, formatting storage volumes, transferring volumes across servers and creating object storage containers.

What is Cinder?    Configuring Cinder with K8s

 

Episode 4 – Building Virtual Networks

In this episode, Jay will introduce you to Neutron.  You will learn about network related topics within OpenStack such as security groups, building networks, setting up routers, launching computing instances on new networks, setting up floating IP address and setting up a load balancer in OpenStack with a floating IP. 

What is Neutron?    Networking in OpenStack

Episode 5 – Combining OpenStack and OpenShift

In this episode, Jay will show you how to combine OpenStack with OpenShift. In this episode, you will learn to  create and set up OpenStack Project and how to install and configure OpenShift on OpenStack.
   Installing and OpenShift Cluster on OpenStack

 

Episode 6 – Automating Cloud Deployments

In this episode, Jay will show you how to automate OpenStack with Terraform and Ansible!

Kolla Ansible      Terraform Guide