How long does it take you to onboard 3rd party services onto your cloud? And the next question is how complicated it is to onboard and use these services?
Onboard 3rd party services have never been easy in existing cloud infrastructure, this has been a teething issue both in public and private cloud computing environment. Let us look at onboarding third-party services for the various cloud platform.
Onboarding 3rd party services onto OpenStack
This article from OpenStack gives us some indication that onboarding 3rd party services is not really their main focus. OpenStack objective is to provide a cloud platform and third-party onboarding task is pass to the end user. However, there are tools like puppet, chef, and ansible that can be used to help install and configure third-party applications.
Onboarding 3rd party services onto Cloudstack
To onboard third-party services onto Cloudstack, you need to integrate these services onto Cloudstack portal. This guideline provided by Cloudstack shows that 3rd party vendors not only need to create their own services, they are also responsible to integrate into Cloudstack architecture. This is extra jobs for vendors which might not yield any benefits to them.
Onboarding 3rd party services onto a public cloud
Public cloud provider provides does not provide such services, however, they do have template function which allows third-party services providers to provide their services as a template.
Onboarding 3rd party services onto ezStackr
One of our design focus is to look at how the user can onboard 3rd party services or templates onto their cloud infrastructure. Take a look at this video, we will show you how you can easily onboard 3rd party services onto ezStackr.
Don’t get me wrong, all the cloud platforms mention is a great product. They are designed for addressing a specific problem and they are still evolving. On the other hand, ezStackr are designed to achieve better user experience and simplified cloud experience.
Beside onboarding 3rd party services, we also want our users to be able to deploy these services with ease. We will discuss this in our next article.