Midokura, a global startup focused on network virtualization, Monday announced that the source code for its MidoNet technology, a complete network virtualization solution designed for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds, is now available as open source under the Apache 2.0 free software license. With the announcement, OpenStack community can use, distribute and build on the technology, as well as contribute to the project.
Midokura said that it is committed to building a non-vendor driven community around the project and has dedicated resources to building and supporting a community of MidoNet users, including new staffing, a website and community infrastructure. Midokura claims that more than 18 top-tier partners are standing behind Midokura to support the open source project, many already working to integrate MidoNet with industry-leading cloud platforms and technologies.
Dan Mihai Dumitriu, co-founder and CEO of Midokura
We’ve been hard at work building our MidoNet solution for the past four years, well ahead of the competition. The OpenStack Neutron community is quite fractured because multiple vendors are trying to sell proprietary solutions and thus have little incentive to invest in the default, which remains unfit for production. We decided to resolve the cognitive dissonance by open sourcing MidoNet, and making it a truly community driven project. We are giving the OpenStack community a stable, scalable, easy to deploy and fully open virtual networking solution.