Mirantis Fuels up containers

Clever Mirantis is containerising OpenStack with its Fuel plug-in using Kubernetes for container orchestration.

It says it is collaborating with Intel and Google to turn OpenStack into a microservices application, and the three companies will work with the OpenStack community to package OpenStack into Docker containers to be managed by Kubernetes. The three say the new software "will give users fine grain control over the placement of services used for the OpenStack control plane and the ability to do rolling updates of OpenStack, make the OpenStack control plane self-healing and more resilient, and smooth the path for the creating of microservices-based applications on OpenStack." Mirantis will become a contributor to the Kubernetes project, aiming to become a top contributor over the next year. It has also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a Linux Foundation project and organisation dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native applications and services, as a Silver member.

The trio will discuss collaboration details at the OpenStack Days Silicon Valley on August 9-10. ®