Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
for Cloud Watch
| September 16, 2021 — 20:29 GMT (21:29 BST)
| Topic: Cloud
Cloud-native computing is the future of IT. That’s not hype. That’s the truth. We’ve been moving our programs to containers on clouds governed by Kubernetes for years now, backed by numerous other programs, most of which live in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Infrastructure Foundation. There’s only one tiny problem: It’s really, really hard. That’s where Mirantis with its just-announced Mirantis Flow, comes in.
Mirantis Flow manages this by integrating container and cloud-native open-source technologies for you in a subscription service. It does this by using Mirantis’s own large cloud-native software offerings. Flow can utilize existing computing hardware with the Mirantis Container Cloud, Mirantis’s Kubernetes offering, for providing deployment and lifecycle management of your Kubernetes cluster across multiple infrastructure platforms. It also uses the Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. On top of this, you can run Lens Spaces, for collaborative cloud-native development, and Mirantis StackLight for cloud monitoring and alerting. It also comes with Mirantis OpsCare 24×7 proactive support or OpsCare managed services, which includes deployment.
In short, you pay the money, Mirantis provides everything you need to run enterprise-level cloud services. Or, as the company puts it, “Mirantis takes over operation of the infrastructure, enabling your DevOps team to save time so they can focus on application delivery.”
This, as you might guess, isn’t cheap. It’s priced at $15,000 per month or $180,000 annually. This includes:
1,000 core/vCPU licenses for access to all products in the Mirantis software suite;No additional charge for control plane and management software licenses;
Support for initial 20 virtual machines (VM) migrations or application onboarding;
Unlimited 24×7 OpsCare support.
On the other hand, if you’ve added up the costs to do all this yourself… well, I’ve done this kind of analysis for companies. Mirantis Flow may well prove cheaper for you.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
for Cloud Watch
| September 16, 2021 — 20:29 GMT (21:29 BST)
| Topic: Cloud