A new open source cloud management tool… from Walmart

Now available on Github, the guts of Walmart's cloud application OneOps. (credit: @Walmartlabs)

If you want evidence of just how different Internet retail and brick-and-mortar retail are, you just have to look at what's going on with the world's largest retailer. In the same week that Walmart announced the closing of over 100 physical stores, the company's e-commerce unit announced that it is releasing a piece of its cloud-management infrastructure as open source—publishing the OneOps platform on Github. The company's internal e-commerce development unit, @Walmartlabs, has released OneOps under the Apache 2.0 license.

OneOps is a tool built around the philosophy of DevOps—a "cloud management and application lifecycle management platform," as Walmart Chief Technology Officer Jeremy King described it in a blog post. That places it in the same space as tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and Amazon Web Services' Elastic Beanstalk but with some specific differences that have driven its development and adoption at Walmart.

OneOps works with any public, private, or hybrid cloud that uses the OpenStack cloud environment (including CenturyLink and Rackspace), as well as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. It can automatically configure, repair, and scale up applications across multiple cloud providers. Like other tools, it also automates the creation of virtual machine instances for developers, handling security settings and other image configuration tasks. But it can also move applications from one cloud to another on a user's command as lower costs, better availability, available bandwidth, security, capacity, or other technological advantages dictate.

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