Features

KEY FEATURES

SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS

• Warren is architecturally a modular, containerized microservice platform, with services communicating internally over APIs and/or message queues
• Management layer contains all the capabilities required to create and manage a software defined infrastructure
• Consists of the most reliable open source components, strictly following twelve-factor engineering methodology and architecturally following GALS principles
• 100% of functionality is covered by RESTful API

GENERAL OVERVIEW

• Virtualization and Container solutions guaranteed to work with Intel based servers (AMD and ARM64 based systems also partially supported with full support soon to follow)
• Among the highest priorities has always been the fault tolerance and high availability with no single point of failure (no SPOF) in any critical part of the system
• Multi-master cluster as a minimum quality requirement (no single master setups)
• Resource agents for KVM and Docker Containers
• API driven / API-first feature release rules, processes to keep the architectural layers current to their purpose and nothing more

ENTERPRISE GRADE VIRTUALIZATION

• KVM/QEMU based virtualization for Linux and Windows Servers, 64 bit operating systems
• Fast and seamless built in backup instruments
• Built in, one click live snapshots to freeze the machine states for later duplication
• Easy and super fast cloning of virtual machines (also from snapshots)
• Moving QEMU virtual servers from one physical host to another without any downtime
• Auto live migration for optimization and reliability purposes
• Hypervisor level self-healing by recovering guests on other hypervisors

ENTERPRISE GRADE HIGHLY SCALABLE CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES

• Apache Mesos based container system for maximum scalability and reliability (proven by Twitter to run on larger than 80 000 node cluster)
• Health checks with self-healing and auto-scaling capabilities
• Built-in persistent storage capability
• Public and private registry support

STANDALONE WEB-BASED MANAGEMENT GUI

• Blazing fast and intuitive single-page application GUI
• Built in terminal for easy access on the go
• Easy to learn and understand file explorer style logic
• Basic metrics of health of the resources
• Subscription management via GUI

STORAGE

• Deeply integrated Ceph RBD distributed Local storage
• Extendable to plug in other storage technologies
• Unlimited number of storage definitions (clusterwide)

NETWORKING

• Bridged networking model
• Each host with up to 4094 bridges
• Open vSwitch
• Built in load balancer
• Floating IP system across containers and virtual machines

USER MANAGEMENT & BILLING

• Auth0 registration and login system
• Flexibility to use additional authentication options
• Billing account management with detailed specifications per resource
• Complete accounting system with invoicing and payment processor integration (Creditcards)
• Credit management system

COMING NEXT

VIRTUAL MACHINES

• ESXi support
• Template management
• Custom OS uploads
• Easier SSH key management for teams

CONTAINERS

• Built in private image registry
• Convenience features for easy CI/CD pipeline setups
• Advanced metrics and log management
• Autoscaling Kubernetes as service on top of Mesos

STORAGE

• Built in private image registry
• Custom OS uploads
• Multi location replication for object storage
• Built in object storage file browser with the capability to open and edit files (Code, notebooks etc)

NETWORKING

• Built in VPN
• Connected public clouds (Azure, Google, AWS)
• Built in firewall
• Visual network topology

GENERAL

• Built-in Jyptyter notebooks with scalable resources for data science projects
• Cluster physical nodes auto-installation and setup
• Secure HTML5 VNC console, supporting SSL
• Shared workspaces & real-time collaboration
• Cluster-wide task and cluster logs
• GPU support
• Project component to group different resources serving single goal
• Event Notifications through your favorite channels

USER MANAGEMENT & BILLING

• User- and permission management for all objects
• A role is simply a list of privileges. Warren comes with a number of predefined roles which satisfies most needs. The
• whole set of predefined roles can be seen on the GUI.
• Support for multiple authentication sources (e.g.local, AD, LDAP)