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Cloud Computing: Open Source OpenStack Gains Traction But Still is Rough Around the Edge

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By Dick Weisinger

OpenStack is an Open Source infrastructure product for creating private cloud environments. It’s currently received considerable buzz in the media and is supported by vendors like HP, Red Hat, Cisco and IBM. More than 64 different companies have contributed to OpenStack. The newest release of the product is code named Havana.

Features of the OpenStack Havana release include:

  • Improved load-balancing and firewall as a service
  • Heat Orchestration feature allows a cloud administrator to specify the set of services that need to be deployed
  • Ceilometer, a metering and data-collection framework. Includes functions for customer billing, sending alerts, and collecting data that can be fed into systems like HBase and MongoDB

Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack Foundation executive director, said that “OpenStack is a powerful platform developed by a large number of open source developer community. With over 1,600 developers from 70+ organisation worldwide, we aim to build a software that will create a big impact in cloud computing arena… OpenStack is not driven by a single company, rather it is a community driven by innovation. With deep engagement from the developer community and from our users, today we are able to see adoption of OpenStack from many organisations… We saw a tremendous growth in terms of contribution from individual developers. From 10,000 lines of code in 2011, today, we have 1.74 million lines of code contributed from the OpenStack community.”

But, despite the growth that OpenStack has seen, there are many issues with the current state of the project. For example, Randy Bias of CloudScaling told the Register that “downloading an OpenStack deployment is a complex undertaking with a lot of rough edges – there’s a lot of ways to hurt yourself. OpenStack is a very flexible system [but it] presents problems in that there can be certain design decisions that make it hard to upgrade.”

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December 4th, 2013
Category: Cloud Computing, Open SOurce
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