Origo OS manages infastructure running virtualized workloads and services. Origo OS supports management through a web client, declarative configuration and automation through the API or the CLI.
Origo OS’s code-name during development was “Stabile”, which is inspired by the use of the word in Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings.
In the IT operations business we are currently somewhere along a containerization hype cycle. Those who have been long enough in the business, remember previous hype cycles. The virtualization hype cycle reached the plateau of productivity with VMware as the uncontested winner. Later OpenStack and the open source community tried to challenge this – initially with plenty of momentum, but OpenStack now seems to be permanently stuck in the through of disillusionment. Meanwhile IaaS and the “cloud” have had a party of their own with AWS et el., which to some extent makes the quest to unseat VMware from the server room throne all but obsolete. Currently container orchestration is the new hot kid on the block, and while containers are a great way to share hardware ressources, they do not make orchestration of VM’s, and more generally orchestration of hardware ressources, obsolete. Everything ultimately runs on hardware, and while it’s great that Docker and Kubernetes are open source, they provide little help in managing your basic compute, storage and network infrastructure. So – the net effect of this new paradigm is to move things even faster out of the server rooms, and onto infrastructure orchestrated by Amazon, Google and Microsoft, which may be great or not so great, depending on your viewpoint. Open it is not.
If you have no desire to tinker with hardware, and mainly want to write your code, containerize your application and deploy it to some pre-configured Kubernetes environment, you should probably just look to some of the great cloud offerings out there.
Origo OS tries to fill a gap in the market we feel there is for those who, for whatever reason, prefer to manage their own basic infrastructure on “bare iron”.
Origo OS provides you with:
If you have read this far, we suggest you strap in, and go ahead with reading about the main components of Origo OS.
The Web Client and the API are organized around the ressources that Origo OS manages and orchestrates. They are: