OpenStack consulting and hands-on support

OpenStack is an open source platform for building and operating private cloud infrastructure. It gives you control over compute, networking, storage, identity, and image management through APIs and automation, so your teams can run cloud-style infrastructure on hardware or in a hosted environment they control.

Platform engineering, infrastructure, and SRE teams use OpenStack when they need predictable access patterns, tenant isolation, and governance without giving up automation. It fits well in environments that already rely on IaC, GitOps, and standard operational runbooks, especially when you need to support internal teams, regulated workloads, or hybrid cloud setups.

• Automates provisioning of virtual machines, networks, volumes, and load balancing through APIs and CLI tools.
• Supports private cloud operating models where security, tenancy, and quota management matter.
• Works with infrastructure as code workflows, often paired with Terraform and configuration management tools for repeatable environments.
• Fits platform engineering efforts that standardize self-service infrastructure for application, data, and ML teams.
• Helps SRE teams define operational controls for upgrades, backups, capacity planning, and incident response.
• Provides a foundation for network-heavy or stateful workloads that need careful placement and storage design.
• Useful when you need consulting support for assessment, architecture, implementation, and day-2 operations, such as through platform engineering services.

Teams use OpenStack when they need to run private cloud infrastructure with strong control over compute, networking, and storage. It fits organizations that want infrastructure they can automate and manage like a public cloud, while keeping workloads on their own hardware or in their own tenancy for security, compliance, cost, or data-locality reasons.

• It gives you a programmable control plane for virtual machines, networks, volumes, and images, so teams can standardize infrastructure provisioning instead of building one-off server workflows.
• It supports multi-tenant environments with projects, quotas, role-based access control, and network isolation, which helps platform teams separate business units, environments, and shared services.
• It works well for organizations that need private cloud governance, including IAM alignment, network segmentation, and audit-friendly change control across infrastructure operations.
• It can reduce dependency on a single public cloud for core workloads, which is useful when you need workload portability, data residency, or tighter control over hardware utilization.
• It integrates with automation pipelines and GitOps-style workflows, so infrastructure changes can follow the same review, promotion, and rollback patterns used for application delivery.
• It provides a path to consolidate compute capacity across teams and environments, which can improve hardware use and make capacity planning more predictable when paired with proper scheduling and quota management.
• It is suitable for day-2 operations where teams need image lifecycle management, instance rebuilds, volume handling, network troubleshooting, and upgrade planning across a long-lived platform.
• It gives SRE and platform teams a consistent target for observability, incident response, and runbook automation, especially when the environment includes many hypervisors, regions, or availability zones.

Our experience with OpenStack helps clients build and operate private cloud platforms with more reliable automation, clearer governance, and better control over compute, networking, and storage. We work with teams that need to standardize infrastructure delivery, reduce manual platform operations, and create day-2 practices for capacity, upgrades, security, and incident response. That includes helping clients design environments that fit existing identity, network, and compliance requirements while keeping operations practical for the teams that run them.

Some of the things we did include:

• Assessing existing OpenStack environments for architecture gaps, operational risk, upgrade blockers, and capacity constraints.
• Designing reference architectures for control plane, compute, networking, storage, and tenant isolation based on the client’s availability and scale needs.
• Building infrastructure as code for repeatable deployment and configuration of core OpenStack services and their supporting systems.
• Setting up CI/CD or GitOps workflows for platform changes, configuration updates, and controlled rollout of infrastructure changes.
• Planning and executing OpenStack upgrades with runbooks, maintenance windows, rollback steps, and validation checks.
• Adding observability for service health, resource usage, logs, and alerts so operators can detect failures before they affect users.
• Applying security hardening and policy guardrails for identity, network segmentation, image management, secrets handling, and access control.
• Documenting operational runbooks and handing over practical procedures for incident response, routine maintenance, backup, and recovery.

Some of the things we can help you do with OpenStack include:

• Assess your current OpenStack environment across compute, networking, storage, identity, and tenant design, then deliver a findings report with prioritized remediation actions.
• Define a practical adoption or modernization roadmap covering target architecture, service placement, capacity planning, upgrade sequencing, and operational ownership.
• Design a private cloud architecture for Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, and related services that fits your availability, tenancy, and failure-domain requirements.
• Implement or improve automation for OpenStack deployment and lifecycle tasks using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Kolla-Ansible, or OpenStack Helm where appropriate.
• Set up or refine CI/CD and GitOps workflows for infrastructure and platform changes, including environment promotion, configuration review, and rollback steps.
• Review and strengthen security and governance controls, including role-based access, project and quota policies, network segmentation, image handling, secret management, and audit logging.
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting for control plane and tenant workloads, along with runbooks for common operational events.
• Identify cost and reliability issues such as overprovisioned hosts, noisy neighbors, storage hot spots, capacity imbalance, and weak failover paths, then recommend concrete fixes.
• Plan and execute OpenStack upgrades, service migrations, or hardware refreshes with minimal downtime, clear validation steps, and rollback options.
• Document day-2 operations for your team, including incident response, patching, backup and restore, quota management, and routine health checks.