IBM released jumpgate to connect openstack and public cloud

IBM hopes that jumpgate can become the "space-time portal" between the private and public clouds of openstack ". Jumpgate is a middleware tool developed by IBM to solve the fragmentation problem of the cloud management ecosystem. It is used to attract more cloud service providers to support openstack applications (even if they do not deploy openstack)

By connecting openstack and "other clouds", IBM hopes that jumpgate can become a "space-time portal" between the private and public clouds of openstack ".

Jumpgate is a middleware tool developed by IBM to solve the fragmentation problem of the cloud management ecosystem. It is used to attract more cloud service providers to support openstack applications (even if they have not deployed openstack ).

Nathan beittenmiller, A softlyer engineer acquired by IBM, posted jumpgate on his blog on Thursday to prevent cloud service fragmentation from endangering the future of openstack.

In the past two years, IBM has invested a lot of resources in openstack and developed a large number of openstack applications around the smart Cloud Project.

However, after the acquisition of softlayer in June 2013, IBM was faced with an embarrassing problem. As one of the biggest supporters of openstack, because softlayer, a cloud computing technology company acquired by IBM, is a self-developed cloud control layer software that does not support openstack. Jumpgate came into being to solve this problem.

Jumpgate provides a lightweight Translation Layer for compatibility between openstack APIs and non-openstack cloud services. This will save a lot of costs for cloud service providers and greatly improve the industry's support for openstack.

Jumpgate is still in the early stage of alpha version. Before using jumpgate, cloud service providers need to create a system driver to map the openstack API semantics to their own API list.