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OpenStack: An Overview
What is OpenStack?
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists
producing the open standard cloud operating system for both public and private clouds.
Cloud service providers, enterprises and government organizations can take advantage
of the the freely available, Apache-licensed software to build massively scalable cloud
environments.
OpenStack currently consists of three core software projects: OpenStack Compute
(code-name Nova), OpenStack Object Storage (code-name Swift), and OpenStack Image
Service (code-name Glance). These projects, along with a vibrant ecosystem of technol-
ogy providers and future OpenStack projects underway, deliver a pluggable framework
and operating system for public and private clouds.
Learn more about the project at openstack.org and how to contribute at
wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute.
Why OpenStack?
OpenStack Overview
Control and Flexibility. Open source
platform means youre never locked to a
proprietary vendor, and modular design can
integrate with legacy or third-party
technologies to meet your business needs.
Scalability. With massively scalable public
clouds in the petabyte storage range,
OpenStack is already running in global
corporations providing secure public and
private cloud infrastructure.
Open Industry Standard. More than 75
leading companies from over a dozen
countries are participating in OpenStack,
including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel and
Microsoft, and new OpenStack clouds are
coming online across the globe.
Openness and Compatibility. Avoid
proprietary vendor lock-in with Apache
licensed source code delivering compatibil-
ity with thousands of existing public and
private clouds for seamless transition from
cloud to cloud.
Flexible Technology. Global ecosystem of
industry leading vendors supply integration
support for a wide variety of features within
the cloud. As an example, hypervisor
support includes ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, LXC,
QEMU, UML, Xen, and XenServer.
OpenStack Compute: Provision and manage
large networks of virtual machines
OpenStack Object Store: Create petabytes of
secure, reliable storage using standard hardware
OpenStack Glance: Catalog and manage
massive libraries of server images
OpenStack is open source software to build
private and public clouds. There are three
main components:
The OpenStack project is provided
under the Apache 2.0 license.
API
OBJECT STORAGE
COMPUTE
IMAGE SERVICE
USERS
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ADMINS
Snapshot images of
compute nodes can be
created and cataloged
using Glance.
Control OpenStack
through an online control
panel or via your own
applications using the API.
Glance can use Object
Storage to store image
snapshots.
Provision and manage large
networks of virtual machines
Create petabytes of secure,
reliable storage using
standard hardware
Catalog and manage
massive libraries of server
images
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OpenStack: The Projects In Detail
OpenStack Compute is open source software designed to provision and mange large
networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud-computing
platform. The software provides control panels and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud,
including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users
and projects. OpenStack Compute is hardware and hypervisor agnostic.
OpenStack Compute
Project Details
OpenStack Object Storage is open source software for creating redundant, scalable data
storage using clusters of standard servers to store multiple petabytes of accessible data.
It is not a fle system or real-tine data system, but rather a long-term storage system for
large amounts of static data that can be retrieved, leveraged, or updated. Object Storage
uses a distributed architecture with no central point of failure, providing greater
scalability, redundancy, and permanence.
OpenStack Object Storage
OpenStack Image Service provides discovery, registration, and delivery services for
virtual disk images. The Image Service API server provides a standard REST interface for
querying information about virtual disk images stored in a variety of back-end stores,
including OpenStack Object Storage. Clients can register new virtual disk images with
the Image Service, query for information on publicly available disk images, and use the
Image Service's client library for streaming virtual disk images.
OpenStack Imaging Service
Abide by Apache 2.0 Licensing
Support all Available Hypervisors
Implement REST APIs and Open Image Format
Commitment to Drive and Adopt Open Standards
Open Design Process with 2x Year Design Summits for Community Transparency
OpenStack Principles
About OpenStack
OpenStack is a large-scale open source cloud project and community established to drive industry standards, end cloud lock-in and speed the
adoption of cloud technologies by service providers and enterprises. The project currently includes OpenStack Object Storage, a fully distributed
object store, OpenStack Compute, a scalable compute provisioning engine and OpenStack Image Service, an image registry and delivery service.
OpenStack was founded by Rackspace Hosting through its wholly owned subsidiary, OpenStack, LLC, and has the support of more than 60
technology industry leaders and over 1,000 project participants. For more information and to join the community, visit OpenStack.org.