Open Source
Software Platform for Private Cloud
Dr. Manish T I
Professor
Dept of CSE
SCMS School of Engineering and Technology, Kerala
[email protected], [email protected]
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute,
storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed
through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering
their users to provision resources through a web interface.
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. As of 2012, 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.
Release history
Release name Release date
Yoga 30 March 2022
Included Component code names
Adjutant, Aodh, Barbican, Blazar, Ceilometer, Cinder, Cloudkitty, Cyborg,
Designate, Ec2-api, Freezer, Glance, Heat, Horizon, Ironic, Keystone, Magnum,
Manila, Masakari, Mistral, Monasca-api, Monasca-events-api, Murano,
Neutron, Nova, Octavia, Placement, Sahara, Senlin, Solum, Storlets, Swift,
Tacker, Trove, Vitrage, Watcher, Zaqar, Zun (38 services)
Apache CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of
virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud
computing platform.
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CloudStack's History
VMOps in 2008.
Cloud.com 2010 under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3).
CloudStack to the Apache Incubator 2012.
Apache CloudStack graduated from the Incubator on March 20, 2013, and the announcement
was released on March 25, 2013.
Multiple Hypervisor Support
CloudStack works with a variety of hypervisors and hypervisor-like technologies. A single cloud
can contain multiple hypervisor implementations. As of the current release CloudStack supports:
● BareMetal (via IPMI)
● Hyper-V
● KVM
● LXC
● vSphere (via vCenter)
● Xenserver
● Xen Project
Massively Scalable Infrastructure Management
CloudStack can manage tens of thousands of physical servers installed in
geographically distributed datacenters.
The management server scales near-linearly eliminating the need for cluster-
level management servers.
Maintenance or other outages of the management server can occur without
affecting the virtual machines running in the cloud.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private and
hybrid clouds.
As an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product, Eucalyptus allows your users
to provision your compute and storage resources on-demand.
Features
AWS API compatibility
Eucalyptus provides API compatibility with Amazon Web Services, to allow you to use familiar
tools and commands to provision your cloud.
Block- and bucket-based storage abstractions
Eucalyptus provides storage options compatible with Amazon’s EBS (block-based) and S3
(bucket-based) storage products.
Self-service capabilities
Eucalyptus offers a Management Console, allowing your users to request the resources they
need, and automatically provisioning those resources where available.
Web-based Interface
The Eucalyptus Management Console is accessible from any device via a browser. The Console initial
page provides a Dashboard view of components available to you to manage, configure, provision, and
generate various reports.
Resource Management
Eucalyptus offers tools to seamlessly manage a variety of virtual resources. The following is an
overview of the types of resources your cloud platform.
SSH Key Management
Eucalyptus employs public and private keypairs to validate your identity when you log into VMs using
SSH. You can add, describe, and delete keypairs.
Image Management
Before running instances, someone must prepare VM images for use in the cloud. This can be an
administrator or a user. Eucalyptus allows you to bundle, upload, register, describe, download,
unbundle, and deregister VM images.
Linux Guest OS Support
Eucalyptus lets you run your own VMs in the cloud. You can run, describe, terminate, and reboot a
wide variety of Linux-based VMs that were prepared using image management commands.
IP Address Management
Eucalyptus can allocate, associate, disassociate, describe, and release IP addresses. Depending on
the networking mode, you might have access to public IP addresses that are not statically
associated with a VM ( Elastic IPs ). Eucalyptus provides tools to allow users to reserve and
dynamically associate these elastic IPs with virtual machines.
Security Group Management
Security groups are sets of firewall rules applied to VMs associated with the group. Eucalyptus lets
you create, describe, delete, authorize, and revoke security groups. How much of these things can a
typical user actually do?
Volume and Snapshot Management
Eucalyptus allows you to create dynamic block volumes. A dynamic block volume is similar to a raw
block storage device that can be used with virtual machines. You can create, attach, detach,
describe, bundle, and delete volumes.
OpenNebula
OpenNebula is a powerful, but easy-to-use, open source platform to build and
manage Enterprise Clouds.
OpenNebula provides unified management of IT infrastructure and
applications, avoiding vendor lock-in and reducing complexity, resource
consumption and operational costs.
OpenNebula combines virtualization and container technologies with multi-tenancy, automatic
provision and elasticity to offer on-demand applications and services.
It supports both containers with virtual machines in a common shared environment to get the
best of both worlds.
It integrates multiple virtualization technologies, from VMware and KVM for fully virtualized
clouds to LXC and Firecracker for containerized and serverless deployments.
It can easily deploy hybrid and edge environments with infrastructure resources from AWS,
Google and Equinix.
Distributed Cloud Architecture
A standard OpenNebula Cloud Architecture consists of the Cloud Management Cluster, with the
Front-end node(s), and the Cloud Infrastructure, made of one or several workload Clusters.
These can be located at multiple geographical locations, with different configurations and
technologies to better meet your needs:
Edge Clusters that can be automatically deployed both on premise and on public cloud or edge
providers to enable true hybrid environments.
Open Cloud Clusters based on certified combinations of open source hypervisors, storage and
networking technologies.
VMware Clusters that use existing VMware infrastructure.
Nimbus: Cloud Computing for Science
Nimbus Infrastructure was one of the first open source implementations of the concept of
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) with the production release of the first component, the
Workspace Service, released in mid-2005.
Nimbus team transitioned to become an OpenStack contributor, always advocating the needs of
the scientific community, and significantly contributing to OpenStack services such as Blazar
reflecting our community’s requirements.
Nimbus team leads the operation of the Chameleon research cloud, an OpenStack-based testbed
for computer science systems research.
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