Canonical, Mirantis Collaborate on OpenStack Cloud Support

Canonical, whose Ubuntu Linux is already the leading platform for OpenStack open source cloud deployments, has broadened its OpenStack portfolio yet further with the announcement of official support for Mirantis's OpenStack distribution.

Through an agreement between Canonical and Mirantis that the companies announced June 3, Canonical will support Ubuntu in Mirantis's integrated OpenStack platform, while Mirantis "will offer enterprise customers a commercial bundle that will include subscription to Mirantis OpenStack with support for Ubuntu host and guest instances," Mirantis said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Canonical will also continue supporting the separate Ubuntu OpenStack distribution that it already offers.

Mirantis touts itself as "the #1 Pure Play OpenStack Company" for its vendor-agnostic integrated OpenStack solutions, and the collaboration between Canonical and Mirantis creates another way for enterprises to deploy Ubuntu-based OpenStack clouds with official support from Canonical.

The Ubuntu-Mirantis software and support bundle will allow enterprises to "benefit from having another proven, supported OpenStack cloud solution," the companies promise.