Greenhouse
Greenhouse is a comprehensive platform designed to address the challenges of operating large-scale cloud infrastructures.
It offers a holistic dashboard and API to manage various operational aspects efficiently and transparently. Moreover, it enables operations of a globally distributed cloud infrastructure in compliance with industry standards. The platform addresses common operational challenges such as the complexity of tools, fragmentation of configuration, visibility and permission management.
Several plugins extend the core platform, providing cloud-native observability, security & compliance tooling and more. These plugins come with sane default configurations and include all necessary components for application-specific needs such as production-proven alerts, playbooks, metric visualization dashboards.
IronCore
IronCore provides the new reference for compounded software layers for inventorying, managing, and maintaining Baremetal using Kubernetes’ cloud-native principles. Kubernetes, originally designed to manage and orchestrate containerized applications and microservices, has significantly expanded its reach through its inherent API extensibility, allowing it to be adapted to a wide range of use cases entirely outside the realm of containers. IronCore takes a modern spin with Kubernetes, offering a single interface for managing resources orchestrated across regions, data centers, and availability zones. All assembled with the identical blueprint, thereby offering unmatched flexibility, scalability, and ease of use. Unlike traditional infrastructure solutions, IronCore delivers a much sought, fresh, next generation approach. As a default, Ceph is modularly provided as a cloud-natively automated, vendor-neutral storage backend for block, shared, and object storage. Furthermore, a disruptive network fabric based on CLOS Topology is included. The software defined network data plane materializes through routed layer 3 only, using an IPv6 overlay, and is grounded on the robust, standard experience of the established internet architecture and technology.
IronCore can be used for cloud-native workloads via Gardener directly, where IronCore dynamically sources ephemeral virtual and physical machines for Kubernetes. IronCore can also be used as the robust foundation layer for other opinionated infrastructure management platforms, such as CobaltCore.
CobaltCore
CobaltCore is a reimagined, opinionated, and Kubernetes enabled OpenStack distribution, fully embedded with other projects of ApeiroRA. It complements IronCore and bridges the obligation to support the numerous non-cloud-native workloads by ensuring backward compatibility. The resulting, well-known Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering is augmented with value-added capabilities, such as a novel, micro-frontend based self-service portal, advanced scheduling and rebalancing, container registry as a service, and integration with Gardener and GardenLinux.
Furthermore, CobaltCore offers coordinated control-plane maintenance, reliable updates of the compute (hypervisor) and storage fleet, extended audit capabilities and customer telemetry services. Operational requirements are seamlessly integrated with the Greenhouse Operations Platform and security posture management. As with all projects, the software lifecycle utilizes OCM methodology and best practice, wherein Kubernetes-based operators automate the inner lifecycle for all concerns.