Piston:OpenStack intro
What is Open Stack
Open Stack is a free and open source platform used a a basis for a cloud. It consists of a number of projects that a interrelated and together allow the provisioning of IaaS resources.
Open Stack Components
- Horizon: The Web Based GUI Dashboard
- Keystone: Authentication and Authorization
- Nova: Scheduling and launching CMs
- Glance: a catalogue and repository of VMs
- Cinder: persistent block storage to VMs
- Swift: object storage, storage and retrieval of files
- Nova-net and Neutron: networking