As per a recent cloud survey, 74% of the enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy. OpenStack is one of the most preferred platforms for such hybrid cloud requirements. While there are multiple players in the market today addressing the hybrid cloud management needs, this talk focusses on extending Horizon to manage such hybrid cloud environments.
Customizing Horizon:
- Decouple Horizon Dashboard from OpenStack Keystone
- Build a layer to manage Tenants, Roles, Users, Access & Policies
- Build connectors to the respective cloud platforms that are to be managed
- Add new dashboards to manage multiple clouds
Features:
- Cloud Platform agnostic management portal
- Manage multiple OpenStack accounts - Public / Private set-ups
- Multi-tenant support
- Define Enterprise roles with entitlements & policies for users
- Integrate monitoring and other tools
