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Rapid evolution in IT engineering is changing how modern platforms are built and operated. Today, engineering teams must balance scalability, security, cost efficiency, compliance, and performance—while integrating AI into both user-facing services and internal workflows. This growing complexity is redefining platform and infrastructure engineering, and bringing to life a new concept – Neocloud, focused on provisioning capacities for AI, machine learning and data analytics workload. In response to these challenges, Maestro takes a major step forward in 2026, evolving into a powerful framework for building complex engineering solutions with modern tooling, AI capabilities, and proven best practices. Maestro 2026: Build Your AI Platform In 2026, Maestro evolves into an Infrastructure Orchestrator and Platform Engineering Hub , enabling Autonomous Orchestration across the entire engineering lifecycle. With AI becoming a core part of modern service provisioning, one ...

Maestro is a complex product, having a modular structure. This means it consists of different elements, or modules, that can be set up and used altogether or one by one, if necessary. The majority of the tools are CLIs that need to have setup or quick start guides, reference guides, usage instructions and scenarios, etc. Each element needs to be documented separately, and the documentation needs to be maintained timely. This gives quite a big piece of work for either the development or documentation teams, or even both. However, Maestro team invented their own tooling for automating CLI documentation management, and this both significantly decreases the related daily effort, and facilitates keeping all deliverables to the same style and format, irrespective of the person who creates them. The custom documentation tool operates via a focused, repeatable pipeline: md → .docx → .pdf This process separates and integrates two content types: The static co...

In our previous post , we discovered Maestro as a part of the Open Infrastructure world, as well as its Open Source components and strategy. However, a modern platform is more than just about infrastructure. To increase efficiency, unification, visibility and control, it is important not only to establish effective infrastructure management, but also to set up control on the application layer. With the infrastructure layer being often hosted in multi- and hybrid- clouds, Microservices became one of the silver bullets for cloud-based and cloud-native applications within the past years. They allow to package your applications properly so that they can be hosted on any platform. The parts that cannot be put to this type of architecture, are often re-platformed, or re-architected within the new provider. Thus, a modern platform should be capable of both managing Cloud environments and empowering microservice-based applications development, delivery and management . Kee...

Maestro was initially crafted as a hybrid cloud management solution. It enables managing both private and public clouds in a unified way, retrieving analytics for utilization, expenses, and security, and supports the establishment of automated workflows for DevOps. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for migration from on-premise VMware-based data centers to public clouds . Below, we give an answer to the question: How Maestro can facilitate such migrations ? The "Six R's of Cloud Migration" Nowadays, cloud experts highlight the "Six R's of Cloud Migration", or migration strategies: Rehosting (Lift and Shift) : Moving an application and its associated data to the cloud without making any changes to the application itself. Replatforming : Making minimal changes to the application to optimize it for the cloud, such as changing the database or middleware. Repurchasing : Replacing an existing application with a cloud-native...

There are various assessment and audit services that let providers prove their offerings are safe and won’t bring a Trojan horse into a customer’s enterprise citadel. Among them, the Cloud Security Alliance stands out. This is a world’s leading organization dedicated to establishing and promoting security best practices for Cloud computing environments. One of the CSA activities is the creation and support for the STAR (the Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk) Registry – a one that docments the security and privacy controls provided by cloud computing offerings. And we are glad to announce that Maestro has just reached the Level 1 within the program, thus proofed its maturity and reliability. You can find the Maestro listing on the CSA STAR Registry page . What does this mean, practically? STAR level 1 means that Maestro team has passed the self-assessment by filling the Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) to verify that Maestro is compliant with the CSA Clo...

The news that HashiCorp switches its Terraform license from the Mozilla open source Mozilla Public License (MPL) v2. 0 to Business Source License stirred up the technical society across the globe. It’s no wonder, as Terraform has become an integral part of numerous businesses ecosystems and infrastructures, and the BSL license restricts using Terraform for creating commercial products, unless a separate agreement is mage. Terraform is also an important part of Maestro Infrastructure as Code engine, and it’s high time to clarify: how does the new Terraform Licensing affect Maestro customers.   What is BSL 1.1 License for Terraform? You can find the full license text   and the detailed FAQ on the official HashiCorp website, However, here is a brief summary: You can use Terraform for free for non-commercial (internal and personal) usage and need an additional agreement for production usage. For integration partners that build integrations with HashiCorp products, inclu...

In the modern world, the application focused on meeting enterprise business needs are widely accompanied by additional tools and services. They are aimed to support the business applications’ performance, reliability, and security, as they enable necessary processes, such as logging, monitoring, load balancing, auto-scaling, cost allocation, etc. When a business needs a pack of applications, each application needs a similar set of supporting tools. In such cases, the number of tools and services that perform similar tasks grows dramatically across the whole infrastructure.  This especially relates to the cases when different teams create, use, and control different applications. As a result, the overall enterprise infrastructure becomes overloaded by duplicating items, which leads to extra costs and extra effort for supporting the whole set. Additionally, the applications management, audit and health check is initially decentralized, which also gives extra load for the team, and p...

Selecting an effective tool for your virtual infrastructure optimization is a complex task. It needs a deep investigation of the options on the market, the details of their offerings, checking if the provisioned feature set meets your needs and expectations. Even if the vendor provides a free tier, the effort of applying the necessary configurations can take several days, and after that, you need to learn how to use the new tool properly. Thus, getting the understanding if a tool fits you may take even weeks. And the price of a mistake – if it does not – is very high, because effort and time are spent in vain – and you may be as far from your initial goal as you were at the very start. However, with Maestro you can see if it fits your business in terms of infrastructure and costs optimization in just a few days – and any intermediate result will still be helpful even if you decline Maestro at the end. So, how does this work?   Day 1. Basic resource optimization One o...

We have been actively improving our Maestro solution in terms of deployment options. Recently we implemented the new functionality supporting private regions in order to complete the Enterprise deployment model , adding the possibility to install Maestro as a private agent in order to manage OpenStack and VMWare private regions, as well as install a refactoring full-functioning version of Maestro application on a single instance within the customers' infrastructure. Thus, the set of SaaS deployment models supported by Maestro is this: Standard deployment model A single-entry point to the unified and simply organized reporting for all customer’s resources across all public clouds they use.  A set of analytics tools for all virtual resources under the customer’s account. This includes analytics on instance and tenant levels.  Quotas management tool, that allows to set up the monthly expense limits for virtual infrastructures and the scenarios for different stages of quo...

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 ...

Maestro is a solution that allows to manage, control and monitor virtual infrastructures across public and private clouds. It is presented in three deployment options, granting the business demands of any customer: The Standard Deployment model is based on the Software as a Service approach, where the customer is registered under Maestro and is provided with the following facilities: A single entry point to the unified and simply organized reporting for all customer’s resources across all public clouds they use. A set of analytics tools for all virtual resources under the customer’s account. This includes analytics on VM and tenant levels. A quotas management tool, that allows to set up the monthly expense limits for virtual infrastructures and the scenarios for different stages of quotas depletion. Alerts and notifications that will inform the customer on the significant events on their resources. The Professional Deployment model is based on the Software as a Ser...