ZitiVPC: Virtual Private Cloud

What it is

ZitiVPC is a virtual private cloud console built on Apache CloudStack. It gives you isolated networks, VPC tiers, instances and firewall rules through an interface designed for people who are not CloudStack specialists.

The underlying platform is the same one large service providers run. What is different is the console: the native CloudStack UI assumes a trained administrator, so routine tasks — launch an instance, open a port, attach a volume — carry more risk than they should.

What you can do

Instances. Launch from templates, start, stop and resize, with console access and usage visible per instance.

Isolated networks and VPCs. Create a VPC with tiered subnets, or a single isolated network for a smaller deployment. Each tier gets its own routing and its own firewall rules.

Firewall and ACL rules. Rules are managed per tier, with egress control as well as ingress — the part most consoles make awkward.

Templates and ISOs. Register your own images, or use the provided ones.

Accounts and provisioning. Create accounts per team or customer, with resource limits and quota applied at the account level.

Design decisions worth knowing

The console never holds CloudStack keys. Every API call is signed server-side by a backend-for-frontend. Credentials are not shipped to the browser, so a compromised session does not hand over the platform.

The UI maps 1:1 to real CloudStack APIs. Nothing is a bespoke abstraction that behaves differently from the documented API, which matters when you later script against it or move to another tool.

Network isolation, not security groups. The platform follows an isolated-network and virtual-router model. Security groups are out of scope by design, so firewall behaviour is predictable rather than split across two overlapping systems.

What you get operationally

Private cloud capacity without building a platform team. Genworx operates the hypervisor layer, storage and networking; you get an account, a console and API access to your own isolated environment.

It is the natural home for workloads that need to sit in Singapore on infrastructure under a known operator — internal applications, build and test environments, or a staging tier that mirrors production.