Platform9 has announced the general availability of Private Cloud Director Community Edition at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. This edition is designed to provide users with the full Private Cloud Director experience at no cost for single-region deployments. There are no hidden fees or time constraints, and it is supported by the community.

“Private Cloud Director Community Edition gives virtualization practitioners a way to test drive the easiest private cloud experience in the industry, at their own pace. We can’t wait to see what they build with Community Edition,” said Madhura Maskasky, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Platform9.

Private Cloud Director is tailored for virtualization administrators, offering critical features such as VM High Availability, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, VM Live Migration, and Software Defined Networking. It can operate on existing x86 server hardware or virtual machines with a minimum of 32GB of RAM and 12 CPUs while connecting to existing storage and infrastructure.

With Community Edition, users can explore Private Cloud Director according to their schedule as they consider alternatives to their legacy VM surroundings. The edition is suitable for small-scale deployments, including home labs, test or development environments, and proof-of-concept labs. It utilizes open source k3s for a streamlined installation experience, enabling users to set it up on a single Ubuntu machine. Those looking to implement production deployments are advised to switch to the enterprise version of Private Cloud Director, which provides 24/7 customer support from Platform9.