Mirantis Solutions

Netskope is the leading global provider of cloud-resident and cloud-based security solutions comprising the Secure Access Service Edge. Their Netskope NewEdge solution combines the functionality of a high-performance, encrypted/secure private network with insert-anywhere virtual appliances combining Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and Secure Web Gateway (SWG - Web Application Firewall), along with additional services for data-loss prevention, deep traffic inspection, logging, and analytics.

Netskope has teamed with Mirantis over the past several years to engineer, build, and fully manage critical network-edge IaaS infrastructure to host and convey traffic to and from these security appliances.

Now in use in the US and fast expanding globally, Netskope’s edge datacenters, hosting hundreds of compute nodes, run smoothly on Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) – secure containerized OpenStack running on a Mirantis Kubernetes Engine substrate – enabling high resilience, reliability, and security, complying with a strict 99.99% availability SLA.

Beyond building, configuring, and fully managing the platforms, Mirantis engineers worked together with Netskope to enhance encrypted storage for this system of clouds, achieving a 100% increase in IOPS – required to capture and persist state data for thousands of security appliances. As John Sengenberger, Senior Platform Architect at NetSkope, says: “The team at Mirantis rocks. It’s your willingness to work through the challenges that keeps us coming back for more.”

With over 15,000 customers, Splunk is one of the world’s largest providers of cloud-based data ingestion, observability, and analytics. Their fast-growing, ultra-high-capacity, low-latency infrastructure fields and indexes terabytes of data each day – a single large customer might deliver 500-700GB of data for indexing in 24 hours.

When Splunk’s 400+ developers needed a Linux and Windows-compatible container orchestration platform for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) and automated performance testing of their cloud ingestion, indexing, and analytics framework, they turned to Mirantis. We engineered a solution on Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, and teamed with Splunk engineers to customize and fine-tune a CI/CD and Jenkins automation pipeline to automate their application builds and tests. The new solution enables Splunk engineers to deploy new tests in minutes vs. days, letting them continually optimize their test suite, broaden test footprints, and test more rigorously.

The system now stretches across 600 worker nodes, supporting over 2,000 concurrent containerized jobs efficiently, enabling over 75% average CPU utilization. More than 20,000 deployments per day are made to the MKE clusters – helping Splunk deliver new features faster, while meeting high product quality and performance requirements.

Inmarsat, a world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, is building ORCHESTRA – a secure, high-performance network integrating geosynchronous satellites, low-earth-orbit satellites, and terrestrial 5G mobile telephony to enable new solutions for government, maritime and aviation, and enterprise markets.

Inmarsat has partnered with Mirantis to help them virtualize the majority of their telco infrastructure, historically based on high-cost dedicated proprietary hardware appliances with potentially-vulnerable supply chains. To replace these components, Inmarsat selected Mirantis Telco Cloud, based on Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) – part of a complete hybrid/multi-cloud solution enabling telcos to deploy, manage, and monitor infrastructure in both virtual machines and containers, from a single platform.

Mirantis and Inmarsat performed an Architecture Design Assessment before deploying an initial MOSK production environment for Inmarsat developers, enabling virtual device onboarding to begin. Virtual appliances implemented in the current phase include virtual routers, packet core, firewalls, and deep packet inspection applications. By the end of the current year, Inmarsat expects to roll out MOSK to all its data centers globally, and anchor all its GEO, LEO, and 5G services to the Mirantis-based network of multi-purpose clouds. They are experiencing positive results already in terms of agility, achievable cloud density, performance, and reliability. Among other benefits, Inmarsat can now perform upgrades to the Mirantis Telco Cloud infrastructure without negatively impacting running NFV workloads.