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Introduction

xpanse project creates a framework for software vendors to offer native managed services on cloud service providers.

Native services here refers to the services that are fully integrated into cloud provider's service catalog, infrastructure, user interfaces and many other cloud management systems. This means, xpanse will enable ISVs also to sell their services the same way CSPs do on their own cloud infrastructure.

Fully Managed means the entire life-cycle of the service is managed by the ISV.

The framework can work with public, private, hybrid clouds and host cloud services based on virtual machines, bare metals or k8s cluster based services.

A basic service offered via xpanse will look like below - with the service vendor describing their service and xpanse does the necessary configuration to offer this service as a native managed service.

mock-console-with-xpanse

Goals of the project​

xpanse is a project aimed reshaping the cloud services ecosystem:

  • Everybody should be able to sell native managed services.
  • End users will have just one channel to buy services.
  • Standardize service definition process by creating a cloud-agnostic service configuration language.
  • Make service portability a default feature.

Getting Started​

To understand the project and its implementation better, refer to the architecture, modes and service configuration language pages.

Current Features​

The current version of xpanse supports the following features

current-features-set