Many companies in the OpenStack community are looking to invest in upstream development of OpenStack, for many reasons: to build expertise within the organisation; to minimise the cost of downstream maintenance by addressing issues at the source; to drive insights gained from serving their customers into the upstream design; to mitigate business risks presented by… Continue reading Upstream Investment Opportunities
Category: OpenStack
Vision for OpenStack Clouds
Purpose¶ This is a living document. Its purpose is to document the OpenStack community’s vision for the output of the OpenStack project as a whole, as it evolves over time. It is also aspirational, not descriptive, in nature. That is, it describes the OpenStack that the community is committed to working toward, not the OpenStack… Continue reading Vision for OpenStack Clouds
OpenStack Charm Guide
Charmed OpenStack is an enterprise grade OpenStack distribution that leverages MAAS, Juju, and the OpenStack Charms to simplify the deployment and management of an OpenStack cloud. The OpenStack Charm Guide is the main source of information for the development of the OpenStack Charms. Release notes and support notes are also to be found here. Getting… Continue reading OpenStack Charm Guide
OpenStack deployments
Lifecycle management Tools and packaging recipes to help install and maintain the lifecycle of OpenStack deployments. Frameworks for lifecycle management Tripleo Deploys OpenStack using OpenStack itself Openstack-helm Deploys OpenStack in containers using Helm Kolla-ansible Deploys OpenStack in containers using Ansible Kayobe Deployment of containerised OpenStack to bare metal Openstack-ansible Ansible playbooks to deploy OpenStack Openstack-charms… Continue reading OpenStack deployments
OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Infrastructure for Virtual Machines, Bare Metal, and Containers Openstack controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources, all managed through APIs or a dashboard. Beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionality, additional components provide orchestration, fault management and service management amongst other services to ensure high availability of user applications. What is OpenStack? OpenStack is a… Continue reading OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.