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OpenStack - Wikipedia Jump to content Main menu Main menu move to sidebar hide Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Special pages Search Search Appearance Donate Create account Log in Personal tools Donate Create account Log in Contents move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 History Toggle History subsection 1.1 Notable deployments 1.2 Historical names 1.3 Release history 2 OpenStack development 3 Components Toggle Components subsection 3.1 Compute (Nova) 3.2 Networking (Neutron) 3.3 Block storage (Cinder) 3.4 Identity (Keystone) 3.5 Image (Glance) 3.5.1 Images 3.5.2 Metadata Definitions 3.6 Object storage (Swift) 3.7 Dashboard (Horizon) 3.8 Orchestration (Heat) 3.9 Workflow (Mistral) 3.10 Telemetry (Ceilometer) 3.11 Database (Trove) 3.12 Elastic map reduce (Sahara) 3.13 Bare metal (Ironic) 3.14 Messaging (Zaqar) 3.15 Shared file system (Manila) 3.16 DNS (Designate) 3.17 Search (Searchlight) 3.18 Key manager (Barbican) 3.19 Container orchestration (Magnum) 3.20 Root Cause Analysis (Vitrage) 3.21 Rule-based alarm actions (Aodh) 4 Compatibility with other cloud APIs 5 Governance 6 Appliances 7 Vendors 8 Challenges to implementation Toggle Challenges to implementation subsection 8.1 Installation challenges 8.2 Documentation 8.3 Upgrading OpenStack 8.4 Long term support 9 Deployment models 10 Distributions 11 See also 12 References 13 External links Toggle the table of contents OpenStack 30 languages العربية Български Català Dansk Deutsch Español فارسی Suomi Français עברית Hrvatski Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Italiano 日本語 한국어 മലയാളം Nederlands Norsk bokmål Polski Português Русский Српски / srpski தமிழ் Türkçe Українська اردو Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча Tiếng Việt 中文 Edit links Article Talk English Read Edit View history Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions Read Edit View history General What links here Related changes Upload file Permanent link Page information Cite this page Get shortened URL Switch to legacy parser Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item Appearance move to sidebar hide From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cloud computing software Not to be confused with OpenShift. 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Find sources: "OpenStack" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) "},"caption":{"wt":""},"collapsible":{"wt":""},"author":{"wt":"[[Rackspace|Rackspace Hosting]] and [[NASA]]"},"developer":{"wt":"Open Infrastructure Foundation and community"},"released":{"wt":"{{Start date and age|2010|10|21|df=yes}}"},"discontinued":{"wt":""},"latest release version":{"wt":"{{wikidata|property|preferred|edit@end|reference|P348|P548=Q2804309}}"},"latest release date":{"wt":"{{start date and age|{{wikidata|qualifier|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}}}"},"latest preview version":{"wt":""},"latest preview date":{"wt":""},"repo":{"wt":"{{URL|opendev.org/openstack}}"},"programming language":{"wt":"[[Python (programming language)|Python]]"},"operating system":{"wt":""},"platform":{"wt":"[[Cross-platform software|Cross-platform]]"},"size":{"wt":""},"genre":{"wt":"[[Cloud computing]]"},"license":{"wt":"[[Apache License 2.0]]"},"website":{"wt":"{{Official URL}}"}},"i":0}}]}'>OpenStack Original authors Rackspace Hosting and NASA Developers Open Infrastructure Foundation and community Release 21 October 2010; 15 years ago (2010-10-21) Stable release 2026.1 Gazpacho[1] / 1 April 2026; 4 months ago (1 April 2026) Written in Python Platform Cross-platform Type Cloud computing License Apache License 2.0 Website www.openstack.org Repository opendev.org/openstack 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.[2] 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[update], it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012[3] to promote OpenStack software and its community.[4] By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project.[5] In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021.[6] History [edit] NASA's Nebula platform In July 2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA announced an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack.[7][8] The mission statement was "to produce the ubiquitous Open Source Cloud Computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private clouds regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable".[9] The project intended to help organizations and offer cloud-computing services running on standard hardware. The community's first official release, code-named Austin, appeared three months later on 21 October 2010 (2010-10-21),[10] with plans to release regular updates of the software every few months. The early code came from NASA's Nebula platform as well as from Rackspace's Cloud Files platform. The cloud stack and open stack modules were merged and released as open source by the NASA Nebula[11] team in concert with Rackspace. In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack[12] with an unsupported technology preview of the OpenStack "Bexar" release for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal".[13] Ubuntu's sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds, starting with OpenStack's Cactus release.[citation needed] OpenStack became available in Debian Sid from the Openstack "Cactus" release in 2011, and the first release of Debian including OpenStack was Debian 7.0 (code name "Wheezy"), including OpenStack 2012.1 (code name: "Essex").[14][15] In October 2011, SUSE announced the public preview of the industry's first fully configured OpenStack powered appliance based on the "Diablo" OpenStack release.[16] In August 2012, SUSE announced its commercially supported enterprise OpenStack distribution based on the "Essex" release.[17] Lew Tucker, VP & CTO, Cloud Computing of Cisco in 2012 In 2012, Red Hat announced a preview of their OpenStack distribution,[18] beginning with the "Essex" release. After another preview release, Red Hat introduced commercial support for OpenStack with the "Grizzly" release, in July 2013.[19] The OpenStack organization has grown rapidly and is supported by more than 540 companies.[20] In 2012 NASA withdrew from OpenStack as an active contributor, and instead made the strategic decision to use Amazon Web Services for cloud-based services.[21] In July 2013, NASA released an internal audit citing lack of technical progress and other factors as the agency's primary reason for dropping out as an active developer of the project and instead focus on the use of public clouds.[22] This report is contradicted in part by remarks made by Ames Research Center CIO, Ray O'Brien.[23] As of Nov 2021, NASA continues to utilize OpenStack in IAAS and PAAS support of the Discover supercomputer cluster. The OpenStack environment is called "Explore" and operates in the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center.[24] Notable deployments [edit] In November 2012, The UK's Government Digital Service (GDS) launched Inside Government[25] based on the OpenNASA v2.0 Government as a Platform (GaaP) model. In December 2013, Oracle announced it had joined OpenStack as a Sponsor and planned to bring OpenStack to Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, and many of its products.[26] It followed by announcing Oracle OpenStack distributions for Oracle Solaris[27][28] and for Oracle Linux using Icehouse on 24 September 2014.[29] In May 2014, HP announced HP Helion and released a preview of HP Helion OpenStack Community, beginning with the IceHouse release. HP has operated HP Helion Public Cloud on OpenStack since 2012.[30] At the 2014 Interop and Tech Field Day, software-defined networking was demonstrated by Avaya using Shortest path bridging and OpenStack as an automated campus, extending automation from the data center to the end device, and removing manual provisioning from service delivery.[31][32] As of November 2021[update], NASA hosts the Explore OpenStack private cloud in support of the Discover HPC.[24] As of September 2022[update], China Mobile uses OpenStack as the foundation of its 5G network. Red Hat claims that its platform is deployed on over 30 percent of production LTE networks.[33] The OpenStack cloud at CERN requires over 300,000 cores to meet the needs of the Large Hadron Collider.[33] Historical names [edit] Several OpenStack projects changed names due to trademark issues. Neutron was formerly known as Quantum.[34] Sahara used to be called Savanna.[35] Designate was previously known as Moniker.[36] Trove was formerly known as RedDwarf.[37] Zaqar was formerly known as Marconi.[38][39] Release history [edit] Release name Release date Included Component code names[40] Austin 21 October 2010[41][42] Nova, Swift Bexar 3 February 2011[43] Nova, Glance, Swift Cactus 15 April 2011[44] Nova, Glance, Swift Diablo 22 September 2011[45] Nova, Glance, Swift Essex 5 April 2012[46] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone Folsom 27 September 2012[47] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Quantum, Cinder Grizzly 4 April 2013[48] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Quantum, Cinder Havana 17 October 2013[49] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer Icehouse 17 April 2014[50] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove Juno 16 October 2014[51] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara Kilo 30 April 2015[52] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic Liberty 16 October 2015[53] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican, Searchlight Mitaka 7 April 2016[54] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican, Searchlight, Magnum Newton 6 October 2016[55] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican, Searchlight, Magnum, aodh, cloudkitty, congress, freezer, mistral, monasca-api, monasca-log-api, murano, panko, senlin, solum, tacker, vitrage, Watcher Ocata 22 February 2017[56] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican, Searchlight, Magnum, aodh, cloudkitty, congress, freezer, mistral, monasca-api, monasca-log-api, murano, panko, senlin, solum, tacker, vitrage, Watcher Pike 30 August 2017[57] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican, Searchlight, Magnum, aodh, cloudkitty, congress, freezer, mistral, monasca-api, monasca-log-api, murano, panko, senlin, solum, tacker, vitrage, Watcher Queens 28 February 2018[58] Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone, Neutron, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic, Zaqar, …