Mirantis

Mirantis has been a top contributor to the OpenStack project."Activity by Companies" [http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno OpenStack.org] retrieved October 21, 2014 Mirantis initially specialized in working with clients to build out open private, public, and service-provider cloud platforms based on OpenStack, using open source tools to integrate the computing, network and storage capabilities which define OpenStack infrastructure.Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/mirantis-raises-10m-for-openstack-services-push-for-cloud-bound-businesses/ Mirantis Raises $10M For OpenStack Services Push For Cloud-Bound Businesses]" TechCrunch, January 10, 2013Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP Ventures]" TechCrunch, June 6, 2013 The Wall Street Journal characterizes OpenStack as providing "a kind of dashboard to help manage large numbers of servers, storage and networking devices like they were a single resource. Mirantis sells a commercial version and helps customers develop and install the software",Spencer E. Ante, "Ericsson-Mirantis Deal a Milestone for OpenStack Software" Wall Street Journal (Digits Blog), April 2, 104 and offers managed services for remote operations.{{Cite news|url=https://containerjournal.com/features/mirantis-ties-kubernetes-openstack-managed-service/|title=Mirantis Ties Kubernetes, OpenStack in Managed Service|last=Vizard|first=Mike|date=April 21, 2017|work=Container Journal}} Later, the company transitioned to Kubernetes based container and cloud infrastructure platforms, including the Mirantis Cloud Native Platform suite of products, which includes a containerized version of OpenStack.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/containerized-openstack-clouds-sure-says-mirantis/|title=Containerized OpenStack Clouds? Sure says Mirantis|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|date=December 11, 2020|work=ZDnet}}

In two rounds of fund-raising in January and June 2013, Mirantis raised $10 million in funding from Intel Capital and WestSummit Capital,Darryl K. Taft, "[http://www.eweek.com/cloud/mirantis-gets-10m-in-funding-to-boost-openstack-cloud-push/ Mirantis Gets $10M in Funding to Boost OpenStack Cloud Push]" eWeek January 11, 2013 and a further $10 million from Red Hat, Ericsson and Sapphire Ventures.Alex Williams, "[https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/06/openstack-cloud-builder-mirantis-raises-10m-in-second-a-round-from-red-hat-ericsson-and-sap-ventures/ OpenStack Cloud Builder Mirantis Raises $10M In Second A Round From Red Hat, Ericsson And SAP]" TechCrunch June 6, 2013 In October 2014, Mirantis raised $100 million in a Series B financing round led by Insight Venture Partners, and joined by existing investors Intel Capital, WestSummit Capital, Telefonaktiebolaget L.M. Ericsson and Sapphire Ventures.Jack Clark, "Mirantis Gets Funding, Aims for IPO With OpenStack Tools" [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-21/mirantis-gets-funding-aims-for-ipo-with-openstack-tools.html Bloomberg]{{Cite news |title= Way To Gain A Headline--Mirantis Scores Biggest Ever Open Source Series B Funding |author= Ben Kepes |work= Forbes |date= October 20, 2014 |url= https://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |url-status= live |archive-date= December 3, 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141203085810/http://www.forbes.com/sites/benkepes/2014/10/20/way-to-gain-a-headline-mirantis-scores-biggest-ever-open-source-series-b-funding/ |access-date= January 30, 2017 }} In August 2015, Intel led an additional $100 million funding round with new investor Goldman Sachs and existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital.Barb Darrow, "Mirantis scores another $100 million from Goldman Sachs, Intel and others" [http://fortune.com/2015/08/24/goldman-sachs-backs-mirantis-openstack/ Forbes] August 24, 2015{{Cite news |title= Open sourcerer Mirantis taps up Intel for $100m worth of funding |author= Kat Hall |work= The Register |date= August 24, 2015 |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24/mirantis_taps_up_intel_for_100m/ |access-date= January 30, 2017 }}

Mirantis announced its own OpenStack distribution in October 2013, in competition with distributions from Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and others. The Mirantis OpenStack distribution works with various operating systems, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Ubuntu Linux.Sean Michael Kerner, "Mirantis Fuels New OpenStack Cloud Distribution" eWeek, 21 October 2013Kevin McLaughlin, "Mirantis Takes On Red Hat, Canonical And HP With Its Own OpenStack Distribution" CRN, 21 October 2013

Other delivery form-factors for Mirantis OpenStack include the Mirantis NFV Reference Platform, a reference architecture for Mirantis OpenStack designed to efficiently host, orchestrate and scale virtualized network functions in ways compatible with the ETSI-NFV specification.Bill Boyle, [http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/it-networks/mirantis-takes-partners-to-promote-nfv/94827.fullarticle "Mirantis Takes Partners to Promote NFV"] Data Center Dynamics, September 18, 2015

Mirantis Unlocked Appliances, first offered in July 2015, were turn-key, scalable modular racks, with Mirantis OpenStack pre-installed and pre-tested on select hardware in reference configurations optimized for different workload types, sold and supported in collaboration with Mirantis Certified Rack Partners. The first Unlocked Appliance, for Cloud Native Apps, incorporated hardware and software from Dell, Juniper and Intel.Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols, [https://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-introduces-cloud-on-a-rack-openstack-appliances/ "Mirantis Introduces Cloud-on-a-Rack OpenStack Appliances"] ZDNet July 8, 2015

By early 2017, Mirantis changed its focus to offer managed services based on a number of open source infrastructure platforms, including OpenStack.{{Cite news|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/961318/mirantis-shifts-again-will-offer-managed-solutions-based-on-open-source-technologies.html|title=Mirantis shifts again, will offer managed solutions based on open-source technologies|last=Kepes|first=Ben|date=March 13, 2017|work=Network World}}

In October 2019, Mirantis became the official administrator of the Certified OpenStack Administrator program on behalf of the OpenStack Foundation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-takes-over-the-openstack-administrator-certification/|title=Mirantis takes over the OpenStack administrator certification|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|date=October 18, 2019|work=ZDNet}}

In December 2020, Mirantis announced the release of Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes, a containerized edition of the open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, as part of its Mirantis Cloud Native Platform.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/containerized-openstack-clouds-sure-says-mirantis/|title=Containerized OpenStack Clouds? Sure says Mirantis|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|date=December 11, 2020|work=ZDnet}}

In 2015, Mirantis partnered with Google to integrate Kubernetes and OpenStack, using OpenStack Murano application catalog technology.{{cite news|url=https://gigaom.com/2015/02/24/kubernetes-comes-to-openstack-this-time-thanks-to-mirantis/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310011117/https://gigaom.com/2015/02/24/kubernetes-comes-to-openstack-this-time-thanks-to-mirantis/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 10, 2015|title=Kubernetes comes to OpenStack this time thanks to Mirantis|last=Darrow|first=Barb|publisher=Gigaom|date=February 24, 2015}} Mirantis debuted its first Kubernetes-related offering in December 2016, when it introduced vendor-agnostic training and certification for the Kubernetes and Docker container platforms.{{Cite news|url=https://www.networkworld.com/article/958017/mirantis-moves-deeper-into-the-container-world-launches-certification.html|title=Mirantis moves deeper into the container world, launches certification|last=Kepes|first=Ben|date=December 6, 2016|work=Network World}} The company released Mirantis Cloud Platform, which combines OpenStack with Kubernetes and follows a build-operate-transfer delivery model in April 2017.{{Cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-enters-the-kubernetes-game-and-ups-its-openstack-play/|title=Mirantis enters the Kubernetes game and ups its OpenStack play|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven|date=April 21, 2017|work=ZDNet}} Mirantis Cloud Platform utilizes a continuous integration / continuous delivery toolchain, known as DriveTrain, to perform continuous incremental updates and eliminate the need for major upgrades of the platform.{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mirantis-cloud-platform-combines-openstack-kubernetes-container-management/2017/04/|title=Mirantis Cloud Platform Combines OpenStack and Kubernetes Container Management|last=Lyons Hardcastle|first=Jessica|date=April 21, 2017|work=SDX Central}}

Mirantis announced Mirantis Cloud Platform Containers-as-a-Service, which enables users to provision Kubernetes clusters across multiple clouds on private infrastructure and/or public clouds including Amazon Web Services, in September 2017.{{Cite news|url=http://www.storagereview.com/mirantis_launches_multicloud_caas_with_aws_support|title=Mirantis Launches Multi-Cloud CaaS with AWS Support|last=Armstrong|first=Adam|date=September 26, 2017|work=Storage Review}} With the addition of Containers-as-a-Service, Mirantis Cloud Platform supports hybrid clouds, with DriveTrain providing "consistent tooling for managing the lifecycle of OpenStack, Kubernetes on-premises and on AWS."{{Cite news|url=http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300092771/pioneering-openstack-developer-mirantis-is-ready-to-work-with-aws.htm|title=Pioneering OpenStack Developer Mirantis is Ready to Work with AWS|last=Tsidulko|first=Joseph|date=September 26, 2017|work=CRN}} As Mirantis continues to shift from an exclusive OpenStack focus to the continuous integration and continuous delivery of Kubernetes and other combinations of open source cloud software, this tooling forms the basis of the company's vision of a "cloud-native continuous delivery" platform for multi-cloud solutions.{{buzzword inline|date=September 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/25/adrian-ionel-returns-to-ceo-role-at-mirantis-as-it-continues-to-expand-beyond-openstack/|title=Adrian Ionel returns to CEO role at Mirantis as the company continues to expand beyond OpenStack|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|date=January 25, 2018|work=TechCrunch}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/08/mirantis_makes_drivetrain_its_main_product/|title=Mirantis eyes continuous integration of all the things|last=Sharwood|first=Simon|date=November 8, 2017|work=The Register}}

Mirantis launched Mirantis Application Platform, a continuous delivery platform for Kubernetes, in April 2018.{{Cite news|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/17/mirantis-bets-on-spinnaker-netflixs-open-source-continuous-delivery-platform/|title=Mirantis bets on Spinnaker, Netflix's open-source continuous delivery platform|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|date=April 17, 2018|work=TechCrunch}}

Mirantis' edge computing platform, launched in October 2018, is based on Kubernetes and targeted towards telecommunications providers.{{cite news |last1=Wheatley |first1=Mike |title=Mirantis launches Kubernetes-based edge computing platform |url=https://siliconangle.com/2018/10/25/mirantis-launches-kubernetes-based-edge-computing-platform/ |access-date=18 May 2019 |publisher=SiliconAngle |date=25 October 2018}}

In May 2019, the company announced its "Bring Your Own Distro" initiative, which offers enterprise support for multiple Kubernetes distributions, targeting organizations that have already deployed Kubernetes in production, including many who have been "extending Kubernetes in a way that makes it challenging for IT operations teams to support."{{cite news |last1=Vizard |first1=Mike |title=Mirantis to Support Multiple Kubernetes Distributions |url=https://containerjournal.com/2019/05/23/mirantis-to-support-multiple-kubernetes-distributions/ |access-date=24 May 2019 |publisher=Container Journal |date=23 May 2019}}

In November 2019, the company acquired the Docker Enterprise business, known for kick-starting the software container movement, to support Mirantis' vision of providing a "cloud native stack, powered by Kubernetes, delivered as a service."{{cite news|url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/|title=Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise|last=Vaughan-Nichols|first=Steven J.|date=November 13, 2019|work=ZDNet}}

In February 2020, Mirantis announced that it brought on board a team of Kubernetes experts from Kontena, a Finnish company that developed the Pharos distribution of Kubernetes.{{cite news |url=https://www.linux.com/articles/mirantis-balancing-open-source-with-guardrails/|title=Mirantis: Balancing Open Source With Guardrails|last=Bhartiya|first=Swapnil|date=February 26, 2020|work=Linux.com}}

In September 2020, Mirantis announced the release of Mirantis Container Cloud (originally known as Docker Enterprise Container Cloud), which provides multi-cloud and multi-cluster management capabilities across public and private clouds.{{Cite web|last=Chauhan|first=Monika|title=Mirantis Launches Docker Enterprise Container Cloud|url=https://www.tfir.io/mirantis-launches-docker-enterprise-container-cloud/|website=TFiR|date=16 September 2020 |language=en}}

Mirantis founders, Alex Freedland (CEO) and Boris Renski (CMO) have served on the OpenStack Foundation Board[http://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/ "OpenStack: Board of Directors"] and Boris Renski was most recently re-elected in January 2018.[https://www.openstack.org/election/2016-individual-director-election/ "OpenStack: 2016 Board Election"]{{Cite web|url=https://www.openstack.org/foundation/board-of-directors/|title=OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors}} Mirantis has been a major contributor of code to OpenStack, ranking as the #3 contributor of all time by both commits and lines of code.{{Cite web|url=http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=loc|title=Stackalytics contribution by companies - lines of code}}{{Cite web|url=http://stackalytics.com/?release=all&metric=commits|title=Stackalytics contribution by company - commits}}

Mirantis contributes to many core OpenStack projects and during the Mitaka and Newton releases, when Mirantis ranked as the #1 contributor by lines of code, the company led projects in OpenStack core and Big Tent, including:

• Fuel, an OpenStack project under Big Tent, is a toolkit for deploying and managing OpenStack clouds. Fuel allows deployment, configuration, and validation of infrastructure features through a graphical interface; it allows users to choose which OpenStack components to run.Jack Clark, "Mirantis: Hey guys, here's an idea - we're putting 'open' in OpenStack" The Register October 21, 2013[https://github.com/openstack?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=fuel OpenStack Public Fuel Repository], github.comSean Michael Kerner, [http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/mirantis-led-fuel-project-gets-installed-under-openstack-big-tent.html "Mirantis Led FUEL Project Gets Installed Under OpenStack Big Tent"], ServerWatch, November 20, 2015
• Project Murano, an OpenStack application catalog project developed by Mirantis and other members of the OpenStack community. Murano attempts to address the challenge of installing third party services and applications in a dynamic OpenStack environment by offering a catalog of applications fully defined for automated deployment.Ian Murphy, "[https://www.business-cloud.com/articles/news/mirantis-keeps-cool-icehouse Mirantis keeps cool with Icehouse]" BusinessCloud June 9, 2014
• Sahara, an OpenStack project that simplifies creation of Hadoop clusters, originated by the Apache Software Foundation and OpenStack Foundation members, is contributed to by Mirantis in collaboration with Red Hat and Hortonworks.
• Rally, an OpenStack project that benchmarks performance of OpenStack clouds, is contributed to by Mirantis.Chris Talbot, [http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing-and-open-source/ibm-mirantis-launch-openstack-benchmarking-tool "IBM and Mirantis Launch OpenStack Benchmarking Tool"] Talkin' Cloud, December 6, 2013

Mirantis was the largest code-contributor to OpenStack Newton by lines of code, with 32% of all lines of code recorded.[http://stackalytics.com/?release=newton&metric=loc "Stackalytics"]

By 2016, Mirantis started becoming a significant contributor of code to other open infrastructure-related projects as well, including Kubernetes, Ceph, OpenContrail, Prometheus, and OPNFV.{{Cite news|url=http://vmblog.com/archive/2016/03/01/vmblog-s-expert-interviews-kamesh-pemmaraju-talks-about-mirantis-openstack-mos-distribution-version-8-0.aspx#.WntwE5M-eL4|title=VMblog's Expert Interviews: Kamesh Pemmaraju Talks about Mirantis OpenStack (MOS) Distribution Version 8.0|last=Marshall|first=David|date=March 1, 2016|work=VMblog}}{{Cite web|url=https://cncf.biterg.io/|title=CNCF Bitergia analytics dashboard - Kubernetes, Prometheus}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.linux.com/news/event/open-networking-summit/2017/2/opencontrail-essential-tool-openstack-ecosystem|title=OpenContrail: An Essential Tool in the OpenStack Ecosystem|last=Dean|first=Sam|date=February 1, 2017|work=Linux.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/Quarterly+Reports#QuarterlyReports-QuarterlyReportsfromBitergia|title=Bitergia Standard Grimoire Report OPNFV Project 2017-Q3|date=December 27, 2017}}

In 2019, Mirantis announced that it joined Airship, "an open source project for automating the provisioning of clouds, as part of an effort to accelerate deployment of Kubernetes on bare-metal servers that AT&T will employ to drive 5G networking services."{{Cite news|url=https://containerjournal.com/2019/02/07/att-looks-to-mirantis-to-drive-5g-services-using-kubernetes/|title=AT&T Looks to Mirantis to Drive 5G Services Using Kubernetes|last=Vizard|first=Mike|date=February 7, 2019|work=Container Journal}}

In 2016, Mirantis acquired TCP Cloud, a Czech startup that developed managed services for OpenStack.{{Cite news|url=https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/mirantis-kubernetes-plan-advances-tcp-cloud/2016/09/|title=Mirantis' Kubernetes Plan Advances with TCP Cloud|last=Matsumoto|first=Craig|date=September 15, 2016|work=SDX Central}}

On Nov 13, 2019, Mirantis acquired Docker (software) Enterprise Technology Platform and all associated IP: Docker Enterprise Engine, Docker Trusted Registry, Docker Unified Control Plane and Docker CLI.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/13/mirantis-acquires-docker-enterprise/|title=Mirantis acquires Docker Enterprise|website=TechCrunch|date=13 November 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-13}}

In August 2020, Mirantis acquired Lens, an open source Integrated Development Environment for Kubernetes, from Kontena, the Finnish company that originally developed Lens.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/13/mirantis-acquires-lens-an-ide-for-kubernetes/|title=Mirantis acquires Lens, an IDE for Kubernetes|website=TechCrunch|date=13 August 2020 |language=en-US|access-date=August 22, 2020}}

In July 2022, Mirantis acquired Amazee.io, developer of Lagoon, an open source application delivery platform for Kubernetes.{{Cite web|url=https://containerjournal.com/features/mirantis-acquires-amazee-io-to-bring-noops-to-k8s/|title=Mirantis Acquires amazee.io to Bring NoOps to K8s|website=Container Journal|date=26 July 2022 |language=en-US|access-date=July 26, 2022}}

In January 2023, Mirantis acquired Shipa, a company that builds tools to help developers develop, deploy and manage cloud-native applications.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/26/mirantis-acquires-shipa/|title=Mirantis acquires Shipa|website=TechCrunch|date=26 January 2023 |language=en-US|access-date=February 6, 2023}}

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