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Explore the Cloudification sitemap to find information about our cloud solutions and services, including VMware alternatives, OpenStack private cloud, cloud migration, and HPC cloud.
Solutions and Services
Cloud Blog
Private Cloud & Business Strategy
Strategy, Data Sovereignty & Compliance
- Why is Cloudification Important for your Business?
- Cloud Migration most common mistakes and how to avoid them
- Should European businesses use European cloud providers?
- The Rise of On-Prem Private Infrastructure: What’s Driving the Private Cloud Comeback?
- DORA Compliance in 2026: What European Businesses Need to Know
- Private Cloud in 2026: Why Data Sovereignty Is Now Mission-Critical in a Geopolitically Unstable World
Cloud Costs & TCO
- Best Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies and why you should implement them now
- Cloud Cost Optimization in 2026: What Actually Saves Money in an AI-Driven Era
- Private vs. Public Cloud: When does Choosing Private give you a Cost-Effective Edge?
- AWS vs Private Cloud: TCO Break-Even Point Explained
- AutoSpotting: Save up to 90% on AWS EC2 Costs
VMware Alternatives & Migration
Platform Comparisons
- Openstack vs Proxmox: Which Virtualization Solution is Right for Me?
- OpenNebula vs OpenStack: Choosing the Right Open Source IaaS for Your Private Cloud
- Nutanix vs OpenStack (c12n) - A strategic comparison for modern private cloud decisions
- CloudStack vs OpenStack: A Practical Comparison for Private Cloud Platforms
- OpenStack-Based Cloud Platforms: Why Vanilla Matters with c12n, Canonical, and Red Hat (RHOSP) Compared
- OpenStack Platforms Compared: A Comparative Look at c12n.cloud, Mirantis, Sardina FishOS, and Virtuozzo
OpenStack
Fundamentals & Architecture
- Introducing OpenStack: The Leading Open Source Cloud Platform
- Behind the Scenes of OpenStack Microservice Architecture
- OpenStack Use Cases and Data Center Infrastructure
- MAAS for OpenStack: How to use Metal as a Service to Power Private Cloud
- Picking the Right Hardware for Your OpenStack Cloud in 2026
Operations & Administration
- OpenStack Best Practices for Reliable Cloud Deployments
- Understanding OpenStack Nova Cells: Scaling Compute Across Data Centers
- Mastering OpenStack Multitenancy with Keystone and Neutron RBAC: a Guide to Secure Collaboration
- Inside OVN Traffic Flow & Troubleshooting in OpenStack - a Comprehensive Guide
- Beyond Horizon: OpenStack Dashboard and Billing Integrations for Real-World Clouds in 2026
- GitOps Automated OpenStack: Simplifying Release Upgrades and Day-2 Ops
Releases
- OpenStack's Transition to a 1-Year Release Cycle
- OpenStack 2025.2 “Flamingo”: Strengthening the Foundation of Open Cloud for the Next 15 Years
- OpenStack 2026.2 Hibiscus: New Features, Security Hardening and AI-Ready Infrastructure
- What’s New in the OpenStack Gazpacho Release? Parallel Migrations, OVN BGP, and Smarter Bare Metal
Kubernetes & Cloud Native
Fundamentals & Tools
Cluster Management, Autoscaling & Multi-Tenancy
- Gardener: Taking Kubernetes as a Service to the Next Level
- Kubernetes Cluster API (CAPI)
- Kubernetes Autoscaling
- Karpenter: A Fast Cluster Autoscaler for Kubernetes
- KubeVirt: Managing Containers and VMs in Kubernetes
- Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy Made Easy
- Scalable Computing and Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy with vCluster
Releases & Lifecycle
GitOps & DevOps Practices
Infrastructure
Networking
- What is DNS - Domain Name System
- DNS configuration for Email
- Open vSwitch (OVS): What Is It and How Does Open Virtual Switch Work?
- Multus: Running Multiple Network Plugins in Kubernetes
- Linkerd: The Lightest, Fastest Service Mesh for Kubernetes
- Why the Kubernetes Gateway API is the Future of Ingress (And What You Must Do Now)
Storage
- Ceph: A Distributed Storage System with Two Decades of Innovation
- Configuring Ceph pg_autoscale with Rook for OpenStack Deployments: A Guide to Balanced Data Distribution
- Ceph Stretch Clusters: Multi-AZ Deployments with Rook for High Availability
- Nextcloud: The Open-Source Solution for Personal Cloud Storage
Linux & Immutable OS
Security & Identity Management
- Kata Containers: a Revolution in Container Isolation?
- Keycloak: Open-Source Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Kubernetes OIDC Integration: How We Mastered K8s Authentication with Keycloak in Gardener KaaS
- Policy as Code: Enforcing Security and Compliance with Open Policy Agent (OPA)
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: Secure Software Supply Chain for Private Cloud and Kubernetes
AI & GPU Infrastructure
- GPU Virtualization: Nvidia's Meteoric Rise Fueled by the AI Revolution
- The Secret Highways of AI: A Friendly Guide to GPU Networking (RoCE, InfiniBand, NVLink & UALink)
- Is Your Data Center AI-Ready? Immersion Cooling Could Be the Key to Tackle AI Demands
- High-Performance LLM Infrastructure with Kubernetes and vLLM on Private Cloud
- How to Run Scalable AI Inference on Kubernetes and OpenStack Using Gateway API Inference Extensions
- AI and Open Source in 2026: Opportunities, Security Risks, and the Future of Open Infrastructure
- Will ChatGPT Revolutionize Cloud Development?
- How DevOps Engineers Can Use ChatGPT to Boost Productivity
Cloud Grundlagen
- What is Cloud Computing?
- Basic Cloud Terminology
- Stateful vs. Stateless
- What are Linux Containers and Why is all Modern Software Packaged in Containers
- KVM: The Open-source Hypervisor Powering OpenStack and VMware Alternatives
- Understanding Data Center Tiers: What Are They and Which One is Right for You?
Open Source & Industry
- The Impact of Licensing Change on Open Source
- OpenTofu: The Open-Source Fork of Terraform
- Four New CNCF Projects: Teller, OpenCost, OpenFunction and External Secrets
- Discover The Power of Event Streaming with Kafka
- NetBox: Tracking and Documenting Infrastructure Resources
- AWS re:Invent 2021: Top 10 Announcements