Overview and Introduction to OpenStack¶
Overview¶
This lesson will introduce you to a very important topic to OpenStack open-source IaaS cloud platform. FutureSystems currently supports OpenStack Juno release which is a the latest version of OpenStack software. Through this lesson, readers are expected to learn basic usage of OpenStack on FutureSystems.
Description¶
OpenStack is an open source community project launched by Nasa and Rackspace in 2010. Community developers gather together twice per year for the OpenStack Design Summit and commit design and development process. It typically happens after time-based release cycle, two times per year i.e. April and October, and the latest release Juno is the 10th release of OpenStack platform which includes new features e.g. Sahara, updates and bug fixes. A new release Kilo is forthcoming in April, 2015, FutureSystems will be upgrading from the Juno release (current version on FutureSystems) to the Kilo release shortly after its debut.
OpenStack is a component-based software and various projects with different code names deliver cloud services. We only cover a few core components in this lesson.
The components covered in this lesson are:
- Nova Compute with a client command tool
- Swift Storage
- Neutron Networking
- Glance Image Management