CobaltCore is a reimagined and opinionated OpenStack distribution fully utilizing ApeiroRA. It complements IronCore as an alternative for traditional workloads and ensures backward compatibility.

The platform introduces value-added services such as a micro-frontend based self-service portal, advanced scheduling and rebalancing, container registry as a service, and integration with Gardener as managed Kubernetes runtime. It also offers extended audit capabilities and customer telemetry services.

Ceph is being used as a vendor-neutral storage backend for block, shared, and object storage. The software lifecycle of the stack utilizes OCM and cloud-native lifecycle deployment methodologies.

The lifecycle for compute, AI, storage, and network hardware is fully automated using the IronCore Metal API and Kubernetes-based operators. Gardener and GardenLinux extensions provides coordinated control-plane maintenance for reliable updates of the hypervisor and storage fleet. Operational concerns are seamlessly integrated with the Greenhouse Operations Platform and Heureka Security Posture Management.

The roadmap Kanban board provides an overview of ongoing and planned efforts on a high level.
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