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Open Source Cloud (OSC) by Eyevinn Technology reduces the barrier to get start with open source by reducing the barrier for an open source creator to offer their software as a service. Generated revenue is shared with the open source creator.
With Open Source Cloud you can reduce transcoding costs, run ad-supported television channels, build a streaming testbed for QA, run your own Minecraft server to give a few examples of what you can do with the open source components available in the platform today. All services are based on open source which means that you can at any time move the component over to your own infrastructure. You are not locked in to Open Source Cloud.
Sign up and in only a few minutes you can set up a new linear test-channel (FAST), test your video client resiliency, or make a 360-validation of your DAI workflow. Leap forward on your journey to automatic regression testing or set up a complete carrier-grade cloud transcoding environment with advanced queue handling.
Quick start guide to set up a hosted OSC service includes the following steps:
- Create an Open Source Cloud portal account
- Create a tenant for you and your organization. You are now automatically assigned to the Basic plan with is for free.
- You can now browse to the desired component and click the component card to enter the detailed view.
- Create and start the OSC component service, whether it is setting up a new FAST channel, starting a test tool, or setting up a transcoding queue. Each component has its own start process.
- On the Basic plan you are limited to be running only one OSC component service and instance at the time. If you wish to be running more you need to enter the billing details for invoicing and once approved you can upgrade to any of the paid plans.
This guide provides instructions to create a new OSC account and subscribe to your first Eyevinn Open Source service.
Open Source Cloud is a multi-tenant environment where you can easily manage your own subscriptions and those of the organizations you are a part of.
User accounts are created at https://app.osaas.io/ by signing up with an email address. The log in link is emailed and the signed in session is token based and passwordless.
Tenant is created and payment details managed in the portal.
Read more about the pricing under the pricing section.
Using Open Source Cloud portal is very straightforward. Access OSC components from the left menu bar.
- “Tenant” lists the components you are currently having active.
- “Browse” gives access to all OSaaS components available on the Eyevinn OSC portal. From here you can search for new components to subscribe to.
- “Tenant Management” for Tenant owners and administrators. Here you enter billing details for invoicing, find the current open bill and manage your subscription plans.
Fig 1: OSC Portal main view.
Each OSC component is highlighted in a separate card displaying its name, short description and a few genre boxes. Each card also has a heart icon which lets the user bookmark OSC components in the “Saved” list. The € icons on each OSaaS component card indicates the hosting fee. One € indicates a low fee, €€ indicates a medium fee, and €€€ indicates a high fee. As the hosting fees are close to cost-price, a higher fee indicates a higher resource usage.
For more information about an OSaaS component, or to subscribe to it, the detail view can be accessed by clicking the component card. Once in the detailed view, there is more information about the OSC component such as the author and price. More information about the component can be found in the About section.
Fig 2: OSC component detailed view.
There are a couple of ways for you to provide feedback or ask the community for help.
- Slack: Join the channel #opensourcecloud in the Streaming Tech Sweden slack.
- Forum: GitHub Discussions