Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes

Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes runs OpenStack services in containers on Kubernetes, managing virtualised and container infrastructure from a single platform.

Mirantis is unusually direct about who it is competing with, naming out of control VMware or public cloud costs as the reason to consider a private cloud and describing the product as a truly open, future proof VMware alternative that puts you back in control. It publishes side by side comparisons against both VMware and AWS EC2, which is more useful to an evaluator than generic positioning.

Containerising OpenStack services is the technical foundation, giving more resilient and scalable infrastructure because the control plane gains Kubernetes self healing and autoscaling behaviour. If a control plane component fails, the platform recovers it rather than requiring an operator.

Practical operations get real attention. Clusters deploy to on premises or hosted bare metal in a few clicks, a cluster update GUI lets operators plan, execute and troubleshoot updates with minimal risk of error, and dashboards and analytics built on Mirantis's own remote operations experience provide observability. Updates are where private clouds usually come apart, so making them a guided process rather than a manual procedure addresses the right problem. The extensible open source base avoids vendor lock in, and white glove managed services are available so internal teams can focus elsewhere. Pricing is not published; a free trial is offered.