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Company extends its upstream collaboration with AT&T and announces Airship integration
into Mirantis Cloud Platform to support NFV infrastructure based on Kubernetes
CAMPBELL, CA — February 7, 2019 — Today
Mirantis
announced that it is joining
Airship
, a project originally founded by
AT&T, SKT and Intel
and launched as a pilot Open Infrastructure Project under the
OpenStack Foundation
in May 2018. One key use case for
Airship
is enabling telcos to take advantage of on-premises Kubernetes infrastructure to support their SDN infrastructure
builds.
Mirantis will collaborate with
AT&T
and other core contributors to develop critical features in support of the Airship community roadmap. This work will
be rapidly deployed in production at scale via AT&T’s Airship, Kubernetes and OpenStack based
Network Cloud
infrastructure.
Mirantis will primarily focus on:
Integration between Drydock and Ironic to provision bare metal Kubernetes clusters
Streamlining initial configuration experience of deploying Kubernetes-native services on premise, making it
simpler for telcos to adopt
Support for multiple operating systems, to broaden the choice of VNFs and minimize lock-in
“Replacing VM-based infrastructure with cloud-native, open technologies based on containers and Kubernetes yields
order-of-magnitude efficiency improvements for telco network environments and beyond,” said Adrian Ionel, Mirantis
Co-Founder and CEO. “Working so closely with AT&T in the Airship community will accelerate the delivery of the
benefits of Kubernetes to the broad ecosystem of telecommunications providers.”
Airship takes advantage of Kubernetes to define a unified, declarative and cloud-native way for operators to manage
containerized software delivery of cloud infrastructure services. At the OpenStack Summit in Berlin, AT&T shared its
plans to roll Kubernetes on-premise based on Airship to underpin its 5G Network infrastructure.
“As we roll out Network Cloud for 5G, our goal at AT&T is to run infrastructure based on open standards like
Kubernetes and OpenStack,” said Ryan van Wyk, AVP — Network Cloud Software Engineering at AT&T. “Mirantis has a
long track record of contributing to open source and we are glad to have them collaborate with us on the Airship
project.”
Aside from contributing to Airship upstream and collaborating with AT&T on key roadmap features, Mirantis is
integrating much of the code into
Mirantis Cloud Platform
(MCP), Mirantis’s core product that empowers telcos and enterprises to efficiently run Kubernetes on-premises.
Mirantis will be demonstrating the benefits of adopting Kubernetes-based open infrastructure for 5G in a series of
customer workshops at
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona
.
About the OpenStack Foundation (OSF)
The OpenStack Foundation (OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally, across a
community of 100,000 individuals in 187 countries, by hosting open source projects and communities of practice,
including datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container infrastructure.
About Mirantis
Mirantis is the flexible infrastructure company harnessing open source to free application owners from operations
concerns. The company employs a unique build-operate-transfer approach to deliver two distinct products:
Mirantis Cloud Platform, which is based on Kubernetes and OpenStack and helps services providers and enterprises
run highly tunable private clouds powered by infrastructure-as-code and based on open standards.
Mirantis Application Platform, which is based on Spinnaker and helps enterprises adopt cloud native continuous
delivery to realize cloud ROI at scale.
To date, Mirantis has helped more than 200 enterprises and service providers build and operate some of the largest
open clouds in the world. Its customers include iconic brands such as Adobe, AT&T, Comcast, Reliance Jio, State
Farm, STC, Vodafone, Volkswagen, and Wells Fargo. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.
Contact information:
Joseph Eckert for Mirantis
jeckertflak@gmail.com
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