Maestro Blog

In the near future, our team plans to enter the market with our Maestro solution and start active search for potential customers. It is crucial for us to make this search highest possible while using a minimum of effort from our side as well as from the side of our clients. In order to create a portrait of our potential client, we designed a Survey . It is intended to collect basic information, in order to understand whether we are able to provide a particular customer with those services that are consistent with his business needs. The Survey contains questions of different areas: general information about the potential client’s business ( domain ). questions about cloud providers already used by the client, which relate to the number of existing and regularly deployed resources (which allow us to define the necessary dynamics ). questions regarding costs , as costs are also an additional indicator of the size and capacity of the infrastructure. questions regarding the

We continue enhancing the layout of our application in order to provide an intuitively understandable and user-friendly solution. With this release, we implemented several improvements for better interaction between the user and the application, both on web and native applications. Web UI  Manage Volumes wizard - allows increasing the volume of the already created instance. The wizard is available via the Content View section of the selected instance. Note, that the volume size can only be increased.  Login Button  redesigned in order to provide an intuitively understandable and user-friendly way of signing up for the web application.  Localization enhancements for this release include the following:  Improved the metrics description localization on the Home page.  Added the possibility to translate placeholders , which allowed to make the translation more flexible and native sounding.  Implemented the localization functionality on the back-end part of Maestr

Automation services allow Cloud users running instances with pre-installed sets of software, effectively eliminating the need to install and configure software manually. Maestro is now supporting integration with major automation configuration toolsets of Chef, Ansible and Terraform for OpenStack regions. Chef Infra and Client  - Currently, the integration with Chef  in Maestro   is implemented and working in a test mode   on the AWS cloud, supporting Jenkins and Artifactory automation systems.  Terraform for OpenStack regions - Maestro team wrote its own custom Terraform-Provider and now gives users the possibility to work with the provided API so that they can deploy the infrastructure with a single template on any cloud provider supported by Maestro, including the private OpenStack region. Ansible client is used for configuring systems and deploying software , as well as orchestrating more advanced tasks. In Maestro, Ansible client allows generating a downloadable zip