OpenStack

Customized infrastructure as a service solution

OpenStack manages large pools of compute, storage, and network resources throughout the data center, which can be managed through a dashboard or through the OpenStack API.

OpenStack works with common enterprise and open source technologies, making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructures.

Features

In a few minutes to your own cloud

Of course, we provide all the necessary cloud resources, such as virtual machines, networks, and a variety of storage options.

We rely on state-of-the-art hardware and current software technologies. So you are always up to date.

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Compute

Our virtual machines are ready to use in seconds. There are different models and operating systems to choose from for any application. Keep full root access or upgrade your VM to a NETWAYS Managed VM and benefit from our managed services offering and a team of experts.

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Network

Run your own virtual data center. Isolate networks and create a customized environment for your needs. Start a load balancer and add virtual machines. Secure your environment with your own firewall rules and connect to your secure network via VPN.

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Storage

Our distributed and replicated ceph storage is spread across two independent data centers in Nuremberg/Germany and ready for your workload. Use the best solution for your needs. Add additional Ceph RBD volumes or local latency sensitive SSDs to your VM. Store your assets on our Swift and S3 compatible storage.

API

Open interfaces guarantee flexible interoperability

Use the OpenStack API to launch instances, generate images, assign instance and image metadata, create storage containers and objects, and other actions in your OpenStack cloud.

Configuration can be done at any time using the REST API, the OpenStack CLI, or popular third-party tools such as HashiCorp’s Terraform.

Start a virtual machine with Terraform

# Configure the OpenStack Provider
provider "openstack" {
  user_name   = "admin"
  tenant_name = "admin"
  password    = "pwd"
  auth_url    = "http://cloud.netways.de:5000/v3"
  region      = "RegionOne"
}

# Create a web server
resource "openstack_compute_instance_v2" "test-server" {
  count = "2"
  image_name = "CentOS7"
  availability_zone = "AZ1"
  flavor_id = "5"
  security_groups = ["default"]
  network {
    name = "public"
  }
  user_data = "${file("bootstrapweb.sh")}"
}

Query of the current systems via cURL

$ curl -s -H "X-Auth-Token: $OS_TOKEN" \
  http://cloud.netways.de:8774/v3/$OS_PROJECT_ID/servers \
  | python -m json.tool

{
    "servers": [
        {
            "id": "41331256-abd6-402c-835b",
            "links": [
                {
                    "href": "http://cloud.netways.de:8774/f8828a18c6484624b571e85728780ba8/servers/41331256-abd6-402c-835b",
                    "rel": "bookmark"
                }
            ],
            "name": "test-server"
        }
    ]
}

Standards

We use the best

From the initial setup of the servers in our fully air-conditioned data centers, the professional cabling, the connection to the Internet, integration in our monitoring system up to the standard environmental monitoring – your IT is in the best hands right from the beginning.

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Locations

Operate your instances in different availability zones. Each available zone is operated in an independent and ISO-27001 certified data center in Nuremberg/Germany. We guarantee maximum availability even in the event of a disaster.

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Network

Our data centers are interconnected redundantly with 10,000 Mbit/s per fiber via two core switches. The sub-distribution within the data center is over 40,000 Mbit/s switches and two ports per customer system.

Certifications of the respective site operators. We are happy to share further details about power supply, air conditioning and access protection.

MyEngineer

Sit back and relax

We take care of the operation of your environment, so you can focus on the essential. Of course, we can tailor our services to your needs. These are among others:

Architecture consulting
Migration of your project and your data
Configuration and Change Management
Monitoring, backup, updates, documentation
Scaling with highly available setups

Dominik Seidel

Junior Systems Engineer

News

Articles from our Blog

GitLab CI Runners with Auto-scaling on OpenStack

by Michael Friedrich | Oct 24, 2019 | Container, DevOps, GitLab, NETWAYS, OpenStack

With migrating our CI/CD pipelines from Jenkins to GitLab CI in the past months, we've also looked into possible performance enhancements for binary package builds. GitLab and its CI functionality is really really great in this regard, and many things hide...

Trefft unser NETWAYS Web Services Team auf der DOST!

by Julia Hornung | Sep 10, 2019 | Apps, Events, OpenStack, Web Services

Die DOST hat sich nachhaltig als anerkannte Fachkonferenz rund um den Betrieb modularer Cloud-Plattformen etabliert. Da dürfen unsere Kollegen von NETWAYS Web Services natürlich nicht fehlen! Wir werden als Konferenzteilnehmer vor Ort vertreten sein, aber auch als...