Cloud Platform Overview

What the platform was

VirtEngine began as a virtualization platform that enabled businesses to build, run, scale, and manage virtual machines, applications, and containers across independent, fault-tolerant clouds. It supported:

a public model — for hosting providers selling cloud services, and
a private model — for internal enterprise use.

The platform integrated with OpenNebula, Docker, and Ceph to offer VMs, containers, and storage to end users, wrapped in a web UI with full API support and hourly billing.

Core capabilities

Capability	Summary
Virtual machines	On-demand launcher with regions, flavors, and credential injection
Containers	Search and launch from the public Docker registry
Pre-packaged apps	Curated Bitnami catalog, one-click applications, custom images
Custom apps (PaaS)	Deploy from GitHub repositories with optional continuous integration
Block storage	Attachable/detachable volumes, safe scaling separate from the OS partition
Object storage	Redundant, API-accessible storage with multi-geo options
Snapshots	Point-in-time VM state, stored in object storage, redeployable
High availability	Network RAID-1-style secondary copies with automated failover

Where the concepts went

The problems this platform solved did not disappear — they moved into the protocol:

Platform concept	Protocol successor
Hosting provider sells capacity	Provider leasing on the open marketplace
Hourly billing	Usage-based escrow settlement
Measured service / usage transparency	Signed on-chain usage reporting
Platform trust in one operator	On-chain audits, benchmarks, reviews
Admin-managed identity	VEID decentralized identity

Section contents

Machines & Storage — VMs, volumes, snapshots, and the HA models.
Containers & Applications — Docker, Bitnami, and PaaS deployments.
Waldur Integration — the Waldur-based platform generation and where its docs live today.