Mist is an open source platform for managing heterogeneous computing infrastructure, aka a Multi-Cloud Management Platform. The managed computing resources may be running on any combination of public clouds, private clouds, hypervisors, bare metal servers, container hosts. Mist is developed by Mist.io Inc. The code for the Community Edition is provided under the Apache License v2.

Mist is ideal for organizations running a hybrid cloud or multicloud setup and provide infrastructure resources to their users on a self-service fashion.

Such organizations often end up building silos of distinct tools, processes & teams for each supported platform, introducing operational complexities which can affect both security and efficiency.

As the heterogeneity increases, it's becoming increasingly difficult to:

• train users
• set access control rules
• set governance policies like quotas and other constraints
• audit usage
• monitor/optimize costs
• automate complex deployments
• set up metering & billing

Mist solves these issues and provides a unified way to operate, monitor & govern these resources. The mission statement of the Mist platform is to help commoditize computing by alleviating vendor lock-in.

Features:

• Instant visibility of all the available resources across clouds, grouped by tags
• Instant reporting/estimation of the current infrastructure costs
• Provision new resources on any cloud: machines, volumes, networks, zones, records
• Perform life cycle actions on existing resources: stop, start, reboot, resize, destroy, etc
• Instant audit logging for all actions performed through Mist or detected through continuous polling
• Upload scripts to the library, run them on any machine while enforcing audit logging and centralized control of SSH keys
• SSH command shell on any machine within the browser or through the CLI, enforcing audit logging and centralized control of SSH keys
• Enable monitoring on target machines to display real time system & custom metrics and store them for long term access
• Set rules on metrics or logs that trigger notifications, webhooks, scripts or machine lifecycle actions
• Set schedules that trigger scripts or machine lifecycle actions