Mist Cloud Management Platform - Community Edition

Mist is an open source platform for managing heterogeneous computing infrastructure, aka a Multicloud Management Platform.

The managed computing resources may be running on any combination of public clouds, private clouds, hypervisors, bare metal servers, container hosts.

Mist is developed by Mist.io Inc. The code for the Community Edition is provided under the Apache License v2. The Enterprise Edition and the Hosted Service include plugins for Governance, Role Based Access Control & Cost Insights. They are available for purchase at https://mist.io. Paid support plans are available for any edition.

Who needs Mist?

Organizations that depend on hybrid or multicloud infrastructure and organizations that provide computing resources to their users on a self-service fashion.

They often end up building silos of distinct tools, processes & teams for each supported platform, introducing operational complexities which can affect both security and efficiency.

As the heterogeneity increases, it's becoming increasingly difficult to:

• train users
• set access control rules
• set governance policies like quotas and other constraints
• audit usage
• monitor/optimize costs
• automate complex deployments
• set up metering & billing

Mist provides a unified way to operate, monitor & govern these resources. The mission statement of the Mist platform is to help commoditize computing by alleviating vendor lock-in.

Features

Core features of Mist include the following:

• Instant visibility of all the available resources across clouds, grouped by tags
• Instant reporting/estimation of the current infrastructure costs
• Compare current & past costs, correlate with usage, provide right-sizing recommendations (EE/HS only)
• Provision new resources on any cloud: machines, volumes, networks, zones, records
• Perform life cycle actions on existing resources: stop, start, reboot, resize, destroy, etc
• Instant audit logging for all actions performed through Mist or detected through continuous polling
• Upload scripts to the library, run them on any machine while enforcing audit logging and centralized control of SSH keys
• SSH command shell on any machine within the browser or through the CLI, enforcing audit logging and centralized control of SSH keys
• Enable monitoring on target machines to display real time system & custom metrics and store them for long term access
• Set rules on metrics or logs that trigger notifications, webhooks, scripts or machine lifecycle actions
• Set schedules that trigger scripts or machine lifecycle actions
• Set fine grained access control policies per team/tag/resource/action (EE/HS only)
• Set governance constraints: e.g. quotas on cost per user/team, required expiration dates (EE/HS only)
• Upload infrastructure templates that may describe complex deployments and workflows (EE/HS only)
• Deploy and scale Kubernetes clusters on any supported cloud (EE/HS only)