I've spent a reasonable chunk of the past year working on a project we launched last month,
Catalyst Cloud! It is using
OpenStack with
Ceph as the object store. It has taken a lot of work, and it is now very exciting seeing the level of interest there we're receiving about this new service!
The great part of this is that we can now offer private cloud services to our customers which provides all the flexibility that we've come to expect with the "cloud", but hosted in New Zealand by a New Zealand owned company so no concerns about jurisdiction of your data! Not only are we able to offer private cloud services on our OpenStack cluster(s), but we can also deploy OpenStack onto our customers own hardware using our
ProdStack solution (I get to look directly at the Dashboard shown on that page, which is pretty cool).
Next up is deploying another OpenStack cluster in our new data centre (which is another project I'm working on). In the near future we also hope to start using
Open Compute Project hardware for our clusters.
Phew, I've submitted a proposal to run a
Debian Miniconf at
linux.conf.au 2015 here's hoping that it is accepted!
The Debian Miniconf was held in 2008 in
Melbourne, so I feel it is well overdue to run it again.
