Open Stack: A Sneak-peek
Founded by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, OpenStack is used for building massively scalable private and public clouds. OpenStack can also be referred to as a global collaboration of cloud computing experts producing the global open source platform for public and private clouds. Here are a few pointers that explain the key founding principles of project OpenStack. - Apache 2.0 license (OSI), open development process - Modular design for deployment flexibility via APIs - Creation of open source software to create public and private clouds OpenStack Components Currently there are seven components of OpenStack: 1. Object Store (codenamed "Swift") 2. Image (codenamed "Glance") 3. Compute (codenamed "Nova") 4. Dashboard (codenamed "Horizon") 5. Identity (codenamed "Keystone") 6. Network (codenamed "Quantum") 7. Block Storage (codenamed "Cinder") Many business unit owners already understand the...