OpenStack
The most widely deployed open source cloud software in the world

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing infrastructure platform that manages large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources through APIs or a dashboard. It supports virtual machines, bare metal, and containers, and provides additional services like orchestration, fault management, and high availability. Trusted by major organizations worldwide, it manages over 40 million cores across dozens of industries.
OpenStack provides a set of interoperable APIs and a dashboard to orchestrate virtual machines, bare metal servers, and containers across distributed infrastructure pools.
enterprises and organizations building private or hybrid cloud infrastructure
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- OpenInfra Foundation
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