OpenStack
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| Stable release |
Ocata (2017.02.22) / 22 February 2017
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| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Cloud computing |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | openstack |
OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). 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 either manage it through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through a RESTful API. OpenStack.org released it under the terms of the Apache License.
OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. As of 2016[update], it is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. More than 500 companies have joined the project.
The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning phase of each release, the community gathers for an OpenStack Design Summit to facilitate developer working sessions and to assemble plans.
Recent OpenStack Summits have taken place in Austin on 25–29 April 2016, and Barcelona on 25–28 October 2016.
Earlier OpenStack Summits have taken place also in Tokyo in October 2015,Vancouver in May 2015, and Paris in November 2014. The summit in May 2014 in Atlanta drew 4,500 attendees — a 50% increase from the Hong Kong summit six months earlier.
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