Nimbus Platform

Infrastructure clouds created a revolution in the outsourcing of computational resources: they enable users to provision resources customized to their needs, including the right software stack and execution privileges on a pay-as-you-go basis. But the ability to leverage this new outsourcing capability is still a challenge to many: users need to find ways to allow the on-demand resources to share security and configuration context, manage the deployment of potentially diverse platform, ensure reliability and scalability in the environment, etc.

Nimbus Platform provides an integrated set of tools designed to overcome these challenges. Our aim is to enable users to move to the cloud quickly and effortlessly, automating and facilitating much of the process. We also aim to provide a bridge allowing a user to overlay familiar concepts, such as virtual clusters, onto the resources provisioned in the cloud.

Nimbus Platform tools released so far include:

cloudinit.d

cloudinit.d is a tool for launching, controlling, and monitoring cloud applications. If the application is simple or complex, single cloud or multi-cloud, VM based or bare metal, or any combination of the above, cloudinit.d is designed to make the management and coordination of that application easy. Learn more.

Context Broker

The Context Broker is a service that allows clients to coordinate large virtual cluster launches automatically and repeatably. Learn more.