Earlier this month VMware debuted BOSH, an open-source tool (or tool-chain, in the words of the developer) for deploying Cloud Foundry.  It also announced plans to make the solution platform agnostic so that the user base won’t be limited to the Cloud Foundry alone, and today we got the first confirmation that the virtualization software maker is sticking to its promise.

VMware has partnered up with Piston Cloud to make BOSH available for another major open-source cloud pack out there: OpenStack.  That’s a pretty ideal choice on behalf of the former, considering that Piston’s flagship product is based on the cloud OS and its founders are among the biggest contributors to the project.

“We’re delighted to see Piston Cloud take the lead for integrated OpenStack and Cloud Foundry solutions,” said Jerry Chen, vice president of cloud and application services at VMware. “It is vital to our customers that Cloud Foundry be a true multi-cloud offering. We look forward to supporting the engineering effort as well as our mutual customers.”

The team-up aims to mitigate the chilled response VMware received from the OpenStack ecosystem, according to GigaOm, noting a PR debacle that is being addressed in a rather straight-forward way. Piston will own the rights to the portion of the modified BOSH version that’s not openly available under an Apache license.

From VMware’s angle the focus now is to branch out, and not just in the cloud.  Last week it acquired Cetas, a startup that offers a big data platform for Amazon Web Services. The deal marked the company’s first serious and direct leap into analytics.

On Piston’s end, the more partnerships the better.  In recent months they announced three separate partnerships with the developers of some of the most widely used DevOps tools, boosting its own commercial OpenStack distribution.