c12n
Private Cloud

100% Open Source based cloud solution
for your own sovereign IaaS

Fully Private

Managed or fully Air-Gapped
Converged or Hyper-converged
From 5 to 500 nodes

Fully Open Source

Free of licensing costs
Open industry standards
Transparent project development

Fully Automated

GitOps & Continuous Deployment
Kubernetes & Cloud-Native
Proactively & in-depth Monitored

Private Cloud on Autopilot

USING INDUSTRY LEADING OPEN SOURCE 🚀

Kubernetes

The most popular container orchestration platform open sourced by Google

Ceph

A distributed software-defined storage platform offering all types of storage

MAAS

An all-in-one solution to manage bare-metal life-cycle and inventory

ArgoCD

Declarative, Kubernetes-native GitOps tool for Continuous Delivery

Gardener

Kubernetes as a Service platform for all popular Clouds

Prometheus

Cloud Native monitoring system with flexible queries, time series DB and alerting

OpenStack

Open standard Сloud computing platform providing all major IaaS features

c12n in numbers

Clouds Deployed

11 +

Lower TCO*

45 %

Premium Support

20 /7

100% Open Source

c12n.cloud is based on industry leading, proven open source technologies running in the world’s most advanced production systems. OpenStack global footprint exceeds 45 000 000 compute cores. Largest Ceph clusters hold over 50 PB of data. And Kubernetes is used by more than 5 000 000 developers today.

100% Automated

Scaling and operating private cloud has never been easier.
c12.cloud allows to add more compute and storage nodes into your cluster in minutes and scale control plane services on the go with Kubernetes and state of the art GitOps techniques.

0% License Nonsense

With c12.cloud we apply and share our in-depth knowledge of developing & operating Cloud platforms for the past 10+ years.
We truly believe in the power of Open Source and that many business should stay away from proprietary vendor software, locking them into unpredictable future costs.

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* Release the vendor lock and switch to an
Open Source Cloud solution with a 50% lower TCO

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LIGHTNING FAST DEPLOYMENT ☁️

PRIVATE CLOUD IN 2 WEEKS

From the moment servers are racked and cabled, a typical cloud design and production deployment only takes about 10 working days.

State of the art technologies combined with full GitOps automation and Infrastructure as Code makes it possible.

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Frequently Asked Questions

ANSWERED 👇

Do I get the c12n source code?

Yes! ✅
A complete GitOps configuration will be kept inside your Git repository in your infrastructure. The source code of all used components is public.
We also recommend mirroring all required Docker images. We will setup a Git server and a local container registry if you don’t have one already.

Does c12n come with support?

Yes! ✅
And we are flexible in case you already have OpenStack and Kubernetes expertise in-house and would like to operate c12n yourself.
You get all fully vanilla components unless you request otherwise and support is billed based on the number of hosts in your installation.

Which hardware can be used?

You’ll need a minimum of 6 bare metal servers + 1 bootstrap host which can be a VM.
Three servers will have a role of Control Plane and three of Hypervisors.
Control plane nodes require at least 16Gb RAM and 4 Cores for small installations. We recommend 25Gbit (or higher) for data plane network and 1Gbit (or higher) for management network.
We also support separating physical storage network which is recommended for the large clusters.
Any hardware vendors can be used and even mixed in one cluster. It is also possible to use both Intel and AMD processors.

Can we recommend and install hardware?

Yes! ✅
With a help of our partners we can prove a complete solution with all hardware (racks, switches, servers, etc.).
The rack can be build up in the desired data center in almost any EU country through our partner network.
Contact us for more details.

Which OpenStack services does c12n include?

By default the following OpenStack services are installed and configured for your c12n installation:
Keystone – Identity service. Authentication and authorization.
Nova – Compute service. Management of KVM hypervisors and VMs.
Placement – Scheduling service for placing VMs according to traits and configuration.
Neutron – Networking service. Management of virtual networks and routers.
Cinder – Volume service. Block device management.
Glance – Image service. Stores OS images for VMs.
Horizon – Dashboard. Graphical User Interface for other components.
Swift – Object Storage. An OpenStack interface to the Ceph RADOS Gateway.

Other services can be included upon request:
Octavia – Load Balancer as a Service.
Designate – DNS as a Service.
Manila – Shared Filesystem Service.
Masakari – VM High-Availability Service.
Ironic – Bare Metal as a Service.
Barbican – Key and secret manager.
Trove – Database as a Service.
Heat – Cloud Orchestration (Cloudformation) service.

Can c12 use another storage solution instead of Ceph?

Yes! ✅
Any storage solution supported by OpenStack drivers can be used.
We have extensive experience integrating and using NetApp and Pure with OpenStack and Kubernetes. As well as implementing drivers for storage support in OpenStack.

Can c12n cloud solution replace VMware?

Yes, but only about 80% of the VMware offerings.
Please refer to a VMware Alternative page for detailed comparison.

Can c12n integrate with Netbox?

Yes! ✅
We recommend using Netbox for larger deployments and we can optionally do the MAAS/Netbox integration.

Can c12n installation run fully air-gapped?

Yes! ✅
However, we need remote access for the initial setup.

How is c12n better than the other OpenStack vendors?

Majority of OpenStack vendors do everything to lock you in their solutions and bill you for support or/and licenses.
For example, Canonical uses own Juju Charms to deploy and maintain their OpenStack. RedHat does similar with OpenStack on OpenStack (TripleO) or OpenShift approach.

Cloudification applies industry standard, free and open source tools only to deploy and operate OpenStack. There are no license fees and there are no proprietary components that could prevent you from looking for another company for support or stop you from operating the cloud with your own manpower.

Is there proactive monitoring and alerting?

Yes! ✅
We can also integrate the c12n monitoring into 3rd party solutions for on-call duty and Slack or other messengers.
In case of support agreements in place, all critical alerts will be worked on within the contractual SLAs.

Is there Kubernetes as a Service provided?

Yes! ✅
It is based on the open source KaaS project Gardener.

Is there a backup service available?

Yes, but it works best with 3rd party solution.
OpenStack offers basic backup features, however, those are limited and work best with Ceph as the storage solution.
In case off-site backup features or DR functionality is required we can integrate 3rd party solutions such as Storware or Trilio.

Is there a billing service available?

No, not by default. 🚫
However, c12n can provide usage metrics via Prometheus to be processed by other billing systems.
Or, alternatively, OpenStack CloudKitty, Gnocchi and Ceilometer components can be integrated.
We can also integrate c12n with 3rd party solutions such as Hostbill.

Is there a logging service available?

Yes! ✅
It is based on OpenSearch project and all logs from all nodes and services in cluster will be collected automatically. This includes audit, kernel, Kubernetes, OpenStack, Ceph and other logs.
Optionally, we can integrate ElasticSearch (ELK stack) upon request.

Is OpenStack still popular?

Yes! ✅
But depends how you compare it.
According to OpenInfra user survey there are 45.000.000+ cores operated with OpenStack worldwide.
Some of the OpenStack well-known users include: SAP, Bloomberg, Walmart, Workday, Yahoo, Adobe, Blizzard, OVH Cloud, CERN, Deutsche Telekom, Stack-IT, Sparkasse and hundreds of other enterprises and SMEs.