OpenStack
Sign in to saveOpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services.
Key facts
- Software.title
- OpenStack
- Software.name
- OpenStack
- Software.logo
- OpenStack® Logo 2016.svg
- Software.logo size
- 200px
- Software.author
- Rackspace Hosting and NASA
- Software.developer
- Open Infrastructure Foundation and community
- Software.programming language
- Python
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.genre
- Cloud computing
- Software.license
- Apache License 2.0
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.openstack.org
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- issue tracker URL
- bugs.launchpad.net/openstack
- Commons category
- OpenStack
- software version identifier
- 2025.2 Flamingo
- announcement date
- 2010-07-21
- social media followers
- 156908
- official blog URL
- www.openstack.org/blog
- source code repository URL
- opendev.org/openstack/openstack
- publication date
- 2010-10-21
- inception
- 2010-10-21
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43 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable deployments
- Historical names
- Release history
- OpenStack development
- Components
- {{Anchor|Nova}}Compute (Nova)
- {{Anchor|Neutron}}Networking (Neutron)
- {{Anchor|Cinder}}Block storage (Cinder)
- {{Anchor|Keystone}}Identity (Keystone)
- {{Anchor|Glance}}Image (Glance)
- Images
- Metadata Definitions
- {{Anchor|Swift}}Object storage (Swift)
- {{Anchor|Horizon}}Dashboard (Horizon)
- {{Anchor|Heat}}Orchestration (Heat)
- {{Anchor|Mistral}}Workflow (Mistral)
- {{Anchor|Ceilometer}}Telemetry (Ceilometer)
- {{Anchor|Trove}}Database (Trove)
- {{Anchor|Sahara}}Elastic map reduce (Sahara)
- {{Anchor|Ironic}}Bare metal (Ironic)
- {{Anchor|Zaqar}}Messaging (Zaqar)
- {{Anchor|Manila}}Shared file system (Manila)
- {{Anchor|Designate}}DNS (Designate)
- {{Anchor|Searchlight}}Search (Searchlight)
- {{Anchor|Barbican}}Key manager (Barbican)
- {{Anchor|Magnum}}Container orchestration (Magnum)
- {{Anchor|Vitrage}}Root Cause Analysis (Vitrage)
- {{Anchor|Aodh}}Rule-based alarm actions (Aodh)
- Compatibility with other cloud APIs
- Governance
- Appliances
- Vendors
- Challenges to implementation
- Installation challenges
- Documentation
- Upgrading OpenStack
- Long term support
- Deployment models
- Distributions
- See also
- References
- External links
OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services.
OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. , it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project. In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021.