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New Platform & Features - Public Cloud [EN]

New Platform & Features - Public Cloud [EN]

You can find detailed information about the new Public Cloud platform here: About Public Cloud

 

Q1. What new capabilities will the new platform offer?

The new platform is a full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud built on OpenStack. We use Virtuozzo Infrastructure as the underlying commercial solution.

You'll be able to build more complex infrastructure to suit your project's needs, with full access to VM management, additional volumes, private networks, storage, load balancers, as well as API and Terraform support for automation.

Q2. What is Kubernetes-as-a-Service? Do I need it?

Kubernetes-as-a-Service is a managed Kubernetes cluster delivered as a service: the platform handles most of the routine work involved in creating, updating, and maintaining the cluster.

It's primarily useful for teams deploying containerized applications (Docker, etc.), using microservice architectures or CI/CD pipelines, and looking to scale services easily under load. If you're currently running a single website or a monolithic project on a VM, you likely won't need Kubernetes right away - but it can become relevant as your infrastructure grows in complexity.

Q3. What is LoadBalancer-as-a-Service? Do I need it?

LoadBalancer-as-a-Service distributes incoming requests across multiple virtual machines.

A load balancer is useful when:

  • you have multiple servers behind a single site or application - it spreads traffic evenly across them

  • high availability matters - it automatically removes unreachable instances from rotation

If you're running a single small server, LBaaS is probably not something you need.

Q4. How does High Availability with replication work?

High Availability (HA) on the new platform is implemented at the cloud infrastructure level: data and resources are stored with triple replication across different storage devices and nodes.

If one physical device or node fails, your VM keeps running using the other copies - no action needed on your end.

It's important to note that HA protects against hardware failure, but not against resource exhaustion inside the VM itself (such as running out of memory or disk space).

Q5. Will the VM management interface change?

Yes, the management interface will change.

You'll have access to an OpenStack-based control panel where you can create and configure VMs, volumes, private networks, routers, VPN, Kubernetes clusters, load balancers, and automated backups.

Q6. Can I use an API to manage my virtual machines?

Yes, the new platform supports Infrastructure-as-Code and allows you to manage your infrastructure programmatically.

The platform supports the standard OpenStack API as well as Terraform, enabling you to create, modify, and delete VMs, networks, and other resources automatically - integrating them into your CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure workflows.

Q7. Can I create a VM with any combination of vCPU and RAM?

Public Cloud customers can choose from 21 virtual machine configuration flavors, ranging from 1 vCPU and 2 GB RAM up to 64 vCPUs and 512 GB RAM.

Supported configuration are listed below:

VM flavor

vCPU

RAM

VM flavor

vCPU

RAM

cpu-1-2

1

2

cpu-2-4

2

4

cpu-4-8

4

8

cpu-8-16

8

16

cpu-16-32

16

32

cpu-32-64

32

64

cpu-64-128

64

128

gen-1-4

1

4

gen-2-8

2

8

gen-4-16

4

16

gen-8-32

8

32

gen-16-64

16

64

gen-32-128

32

128

gen-64-256

64

256

mem-1-8

1

8

mem-2-16

2

16

mem-4-32

4

32

mem-8-64

8

64

mem-16-128

16

128

mem-32-256

32

256

mem-64-512

64

512