Project Eclipse Xpanse builds managed services. You can set them up and move them. It's based on the ideas of the "Eclipse Open Services Cloud initiative." With Xpanse, a provider can offer managed services on many clouds. It hides the hard parts of a cloud service. These include the catalog, life-cycle, deployment, monitoring, and metering.
Xpanse isn't just for the big hyperscalers. It also suits small and medium cloud providers. It gives them an open way to offer native managed services. Openstack is one good example. Many public and private clouds use it. You can use Eclipse Xpanse to run managed services on any Openstack based cloud.
In this talk, we will see:
- How Xpanse tackles today's cloud market. It also applies the OSC ideas.
- The Xpanse architecture - runtime, API, and UI.
- How to define services with the Xpanse Service Descriptor.
- How to list services in the catalog.
- How to deploy services on the reference clouds. These are any vanilla Openstack cloud, SCS clouds, HUAWEI cloud, and Flexible Engine.