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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...

The Cloud migration and adoption keeps on being a hot topic for modern businesses scaling from start-ups to multi-national corporations. The scope of Cloud usage grows dramatically, and, meanwhile, grow the complexity of requirements, expectations, and the resulting infrastructures. Moreover, typically, more than one cloud provider is used, which leads to introducing various services, tools, offerings, and integrations that may differ significantly in usage approaches and procedures. This gives extra complexity, as calls for the need to build an approach when all elements act as a single effective eco-system. This is where the Platform Engineering concept comes from. It focuses on designing, building and maintaining platforms or frameworks aimed at supporting applications development and deployment. When it comes to Cloud Migration and adoption, a Platform is a resulting structure that connects all elements, atop which a cloud infrastructure is built. It is aimed to ena...

Open Sourcing has become an integral part of the engineering community. Both using Open Source tools and publishing your own solution may bring benefit to a product, once done wisely. Using Open Source tools allows project teams to empower their products by specific well-tested functions, reducing development costs and taking the best of the community expertise. Publishing own solution brings more attention to the product, enriches it with the fresh ideas and solutions resulting from collaboration with the community, and builds trust due to the product transparency and minimization of the vendor lock. Several months ago, Maestro started it's own Open Source journey, and the road goes into both these directions. Maestro to Open Source With its modular architecture, Maestro is convenient for sharing specific engines and solutions with the community. We carefully investigated which modules, or engines, can be interesting and useful, as well as studied the best practices and experience...