

Provides all the networking mechanisms required in any instance or environment as a service. Processes metadata for disk images, manages read/write/delete for actual image files using 'Swift' or similar scalable file storage service.

OpenStack Cloud Platform constitutes of mainly following components:īrings up and maintains operations related to virtual server as per requirement.Īllows you to store, retrieve & remove objects (files). RedHat RDO ( ) is also coming in soon making it super easy to get OpenStack running on RHEL-based distros.

You can trial-run your app-code in an OpenStack environment at TryStack ( ). Open Community.ĭevStack ( ) gives you the easiest fastest way to get all OpenStack components installed, configured and started on any supported O.S. came along to contribute and benefit from OpenSource cloud. More other companies like HP, RedHat, Canonical etc. RackSpace came along with their Swift Object Storage Service and weaved in Nova with few more components around it. RackSpace bought SliceHost which worked 'somewhat' fine. In some parallel beautiful world, few Pythonistas at NASA started building there own Nova Cloud Compute to handle there own instances. Once upon a time RackSpace came into Cloud Services. As in weaving of various technological components to provide a capability to build a cloud service supporting any use-case and scale. OpenStack ( ) is an OpenSource cloud computing platform that can be used to build up a Public and Private cloud.
