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MIRANTIS

OPEN SOURCE

Mirantis is focused on establishing ourselves as the only pure play open source company in our space. Open source has been at the core of our business since the beginning and as a long time proponent of open source, Mirantis believes strongly in open source as a way to empower and free our customers from the lock-in of legacy proprietary systems. Our approach is to allow our customers to control their own architectural destiny.

Our Open Source Program Office is tasked with keeping us on track and accountable for being a good open source citizen and ensuring that we meet our commitments to be a truly open source company.

The mission of the Mirantis OSPO is encapsulated below:

Our Mission

The Open Source Program Office is dedicated to leading our organization’s commitment to open source software and cultivating strong, mutually beneficial partnerships with open source communities. We achieve this by closely collaborating with our internal business units, developers, and product managers, providing guidance on best practices and open source community standards.

Our mission is to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and transparency through active participation in and contribution to open source projects and communities that align with our organization’s core values and objectives.

Mirantis Open Source Values

Innovation

Create aggregate value for all through public innovation

Trust

Work together to build robust, scalable, performant, and secure solutions

Inclusivity and meritocracy

Do it right, do it with all, and reward those who put the commons first

Community Achievements

Mirantis has a strong history of open source leadership in the communities we participate in.

Top 10 in reviews for all time (#2)

Commits (#5)
Completed blueprints (#3)
Lines of code (#6)
Resolved bugs (#4)

#7 in commits

Primary maintainer
Moby: key maintainer

#20 in commits for all time

#2 in commits

#1 in commits

Primary maintainer

#1 in commits

Primary maintainer

FOUNDATIONS WE SUPPORT

We are proud supporters of a number of major open source foundations.

OpenInfra, governed by the Open Infrastructure Foundation, supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure globally. It hosts open-source projects and communities focused on virtualization, AI/ML, CI/CD, container infrastructure, edge computing, and various other cloud forms. With a community of over 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, its mission is to help people build and operate open infrastructure. Projects like OpenStack, Airship, and Kata Containers embody the “Four Opens” philosophy: Open Source, Open Development, Open Community, and Open Design.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is dedicated to making cloud-native computing ubiquitous. It fosters a global ecosystem for open-source, vendor-neutral projects, enabling organizations to build and run scalable applications in modern environments. CNCF supports projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus, hosts large open-source developer conferences, and is part of the Linux Foundation. It aims to democratize advanced cloud-native technologies, promoting resilience, manageability, and observability in systems through robust automation.

The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides a neutral, trusted hub for developers to code, manage, and scale open technology projects. It focuses on fostering innovation through shared technology and community collaboration. By offering support programs for project scaling, enterprise readiness, and ecosystem curation, the Linux Foundation aims to democratize code and accelerate the growth of new technology categories. It also emphasizes diversity and inclusion to drive innovation and community engagement.

PROJECTS WE DRIVE

k0rdent is an open source Distributed Container Management Environment (DCME) for platform engineering, that makes it easy to create use case-specific Internal Developer Platforms at scale in a Kubernetes-native way.

http://k0rdent.io/

Zero-friction Kubernetes. A slim, modern, and fresh Kubernetes distribution for any infrastructure, from the datacenter to the edge. Get up and running in minutes, with all batteries included, support for x86-64, ARM64, and ARMv7 architectures, and no host OS dependencies besides the kernel.

https://www.mirantis.com/software/k0s/

The Kubernetes control plane manager. Run and manage Kubernetes cluster control planes as pods within another Kubernetes cluster, delivering unparalleled isolation, scalability, and resource efficiency. Experience how “Kubernetes-in-Kubernetes” simplifies and standardizes multi-cluster management.

https://k0smotron.io/

The application delivery platform for Kubernetes. Lagoon is tailored specifically for the web and its developers – providing projects with all the configuration, tooling and insights needed to run in production at scale, securely.

https://lagoon.sh/

Rockoon

Rockoon is a Kubernetes controller that provides Lifecycle Management for OpenStack services. It automates deployment and management of OpenStack to provide self-managing, self-scaling and self-healing services.

https://github.com/Mirantis/rockoon

Blueprint Operator

Blueprint Operator is a comprehensive system designed to manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters and their associated components through the use of a Blueprint. It provides an efficient way to describe, configure, and manage the entire stack of a Kubernetes environment, from the infrastructure level to individual add-ons.

https://github.com/Mirantis/blueprint-operator

Blueprint Controller

Blueprint Controller is a CLI tool that allows you to manage your Blueprint clusters. This repo contains the actual source code for compiling the Blueprint Controller (bctl) binary.

https://github.com/Mirantis/blueprint-cli

PROJECTS WE MAINTAIN

Moby is the open source container framework upstream of Mirantis Container Runtime, Docker CE, Docker Desktop, and various open source projects. It unifies a variety of libraries and components into a streamlined and flexible container development and execution experience.

https://github.com/moby/moby

dockershim

dockershim is CRI compliant, and enables use of the Docker and Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) with Kubernetes.

https://github.com/Mirantis/cri-dockerd

libnetwork

libnetwork provides a native Go implementation for connecting containers. It is one of the core components of Docker engine (Moby). The goal of libnetwork is to deliver a robust container network model that provides a consistent programming interface and the required network abstractions for applications.

https://github.com/moby/libnetwork

Swarmkit

SwarmKit is a toolkit for orchestrating distributed systems at any scale. It includes primitives for node discovery, raft-based consensus, task scheduling and more.

https://github.com/docker/swarmkit

Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

https://alpinelinux.org/

OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.

https://www.openstack.org/

PROJECTS WE CONTRIBUTE TO

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts. It provides basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications. Kubernetes is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

OpenSDN offers an open-source, cloud-grade networking and security solution that simplifies managing multiple orchestration stacks, such as Kubernetes and OpenStack. It provides seamless networking, security, and policy control across bare metal, virtualized, and containerized environments, reducing complexity and operational overhead.

https://github.com/opensdn-io

Airship is a set opensource of cloud provisioning tools used to deploy OpenStack onto a Kubernetes substrate using a declarative framework.

https://www.airshipit.org/

Helm is a tool that streamlines installing and managing Kubernetes applications. Think of it like apt/yum/homebrew for Kubernetes.

https://github.com/helm/helm

Integrated into MSR KubeLinter analyzes Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts, and checks them against a variety of best practices, with a focus on production readiness and security. KubeLinter runs sensible default checks, designed to give you useful information about your Kubernetes YAML files and Helm charts.

https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter

Ansible is an open source IT automation engine that automates provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes.

https://github.com/ansible/ansible

DDEV is a local development environment for web developers. DDEV handles Docker so you and your team can focus on your work.

https://github.com/ddev/ddev

Drupal is content management system. It’s used to make many of the websites and applications you use every day.

https://github.com/drupal/drupal

Fluentd is an open source data collector for a unified logging layer. Fluentd allows you to unify data collection and consumption for better use and understanding of data.

https://github.com/fluent/fluentd

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

https://github.com/gitlabhq

Harbor is an open source registry that secures artifacts with policies and role-based access control, ensures images are scanned and free from vulnerabilities, and provide image signatures.

https://github.com/goharbor

Jenkins is an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software.

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins

Kube Logging solves your logging-related problems in Kubernetes environments by automating the deployment and configuration of a Kubernetes logging pipeline.

https://github.com/kube-logging

The Open Policy Agent is a general-purpose policy engine that unifies policy enforcement across the stack. OPA provides a high-level declarative language that lets you specify policy as code and simple APIs to offload policy decision-making from your software.

https://github.com/open-policy-agent/opa

OpenSearch is a community-driven, open-source search and analytics suite used by developers to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data.

https://github.com/opensearch-project

Varnish Cache is a web application accelerator also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache

OTHER PROJECTS WE CONTRIBUTE TO

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Enterprise Support for Open Source Technologies

Mirantis offers enterprise support for organizations using open source cloud native technologies, regardless of the underlying infrastructure or Kubernetes distribution. We provide a range of support options and SLAs for the Harbor open source container registry and KubeVirt open source virtual machine manager.

LEARN ABOUT HARBOR SUPPORT

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