We are happy to announce that we are making a source code release of the web application powering Origo Cloud under the name Origo Cloud Toolkit. The code is licensed under the Common Public Attribution License, Version 1.0 (CPAL v.1): https://opensource.org/licenses/cpal_1.0, which stipulates that attribution notices, logos and URL links in the user interface must be preserved at all times.
The toolkit is designed to run in a VM in any Origo OS installation. It will run on your Ubuntu laptop or in your data center, as long as you have installed Origo OS.
During a long and heatwave-stricken summer here in Europe this year, we actually found time to implement a few long overdue features in Origo OS and fix a few long-standing bugs. Below are some of the highlights.
If you need help upgrading your Origo OS installation to take advantage of the new features, reach out.
Yesterday morning, our very likeable Minister for Digital Affairs, Caroline Stage Olsen, was invited to the radio show “Guest of the Week” on one of our national radio channels. Bo Fristed from the Municipality of Aarhus joined to talk about cloud services. The main topic was Caroline’s recent announcement that her ministry would “kick out” Microsoft and start using open source instead. Allegedly because we, as a society, are fed up with Microsoft’s total dominance and our total dependence on their services. Also, our local big-tech-disgust is in general somewhat amplified by Trump, his possible invasion of Greenland, the trade wars and perhaps even Netanyahu. Everybody agrees that something needs to be done.
At this point it may be worth pointing out, that some of us have in fact seen the movie before. This is a remake. And just maybe we should try to extract som learning from our past experiences.
Edora Cloud is a public cloud offering by the Danish IT vendor Edora A/S. It is currently the only public cloud offering in Denmark as far as we know, and was built in only 3 months using Origo OS. Commissioned in September 2024 and launched December 5th.
Europe and the Nordics are at a crossroads when it comes to cloud and Big Tech. All companies use cloud services. You can continue supporting Big Tech by using Microsoft Azure or AWS, you can use a local alternative, or you can build your own private or public cloud using open source orchestration platforms like OpenStack, ProxMox or Origo OS.
Origo OS leverages standard Linux technologies like KVM, libvirt, qcow2 images and zfs to deliver an out-of-the-box private cloud experience. It is licensed as open source and available to use for free on up to 24 CPU cores. Origo OS will give you a head start if you are building a public cloud, because it can be linked to origo.io and provide services, like Kubernetes, managed databases, billing, DNS services, user synchronization and other services you otherwise would have to build yourself, out of the box.
Let us walk you through how Edora Cloud was built using Origo OS.
Recent actions and signals from the current US administration certainly have profound ramifications. Particularly with respect to our ability to function as sovereign, European nations, in control of our own media, information and data. It is dawning on Europe, that it is in fact the control of our own destiny, our freedom, that is at stake.
The core problem is of course that today, Big Tech handles almost all of our communications, our media and our data. The lifeblood of any modern society.
We should however keep in mind, that there are other problems with Big Tech than the fact that most of it is run by American corporations. Yes, Big Tech has had a profound impact on our societies, but if we for a moment disregard economic gains in efficiency, as it turns out, most of this impact is bad. In fact, Big Tech may be one of the reasons we ended up in the current predicament.
Looking for a Danish solution to your multi-site WordPress needs? We just released a one-click WordPress stack available in Edora Cloud, Origo Cloud, on-prem Origo OS and other public and private clouds running Origo OS.
You can host as many sites as you like. Each site has its own separate domain name, database, plugins and themes.
A little more than one month ago we launched Edora Cloud. A Danish, sovereign, public cloud. Our approach is unconventional compared to other cloud providers in that we publish our infrastructure orchestration software as open source, and offer the posibility of running this on-prem. Compared to the very few and scattered, previous Nordic attempts at building public cloud offerings, we have purposely chosen not to rely on traditional enterprise tech, but are instead relying on our own orchestration stack, built around open source building blocks like Linux and KVM. We offer both a full-featured IaaS offering for running virtual servers, as well as various services built on top op this, including a Kubernetes service.
We take pride in extensive support for both Windows servers and Linux servers in Edora Cloud and Origo OS.
Running a single virtual server with a public IP, and using it as jump host to access potentially dozens of virtual servers with only internal IP addresses, is a very common way of running collections of Linux servers in cloud environments. This is practical because most Linux system administration is done using SSH.
For Windows servers the situation is a bit more complicated, because a lot of system administration is traditionally done using the Windows UI over RDP connections (aka Terminal Services). Using a Windows server as jump host by using nested RDP connections is of course possible, but really clunky. Instead many Windows shops choose to use a VPN connection to access their internal IP address space, and then connect directly to internal servers and services. In this post we will show you how to set up a VPN service in Edora Cloud, which can also double as firewall for your internal virtual servers.
With a bit of a delay (we’ve been busy), we’re happy to announce that as of September 2024 Origo Systems ApS has entered into a partnership with leading Danish software developer, IT consultancy and hosting vendor Edora A/S. As part of the partnership Edora A/S has agreed to invest in Origo Systems and receives access to Origo technology.
Using Origo OS and drawing on Origo’s extensive experience with cloud technologies, Edora has already built and launched a public compute cloud under the brand name “Edora Cloud”, offering IaaS services as well as a full complement of cloud native services like Kubernetes.
Edora Cloud is open source, 100% Danish owned, fully GDPR compliant and available today at: https://edora.cloud.
If you are interested in more information about Edora Cloud please contact Edora.
