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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. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing…

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Developers
Open Infrastructure Foundation and community
License
Apache License 2.0
Original authors
Rackspace Hosting and NASA
Platform
Cross-platform
Release
21 October 2010; 15 years ago (2010-10-21)
Repository
opendev.org/openstack

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OpenStack development

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Compatibility with other cloud APIs

Appliances

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OpenStack

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples254
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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OpenStack

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related to Notable deployments · 18
OpenStack → GaaP, GDS, Government, Icehouse, In December, In November, Inside Government, It, OpenNASA, Oracle, Oracle Linux, Oracle OpenStack, Oracle Solaris, Platform, September, Service, Sponsor, The UK's Government Digital
related to Bare metal (Ironic) · 15
OpenStack → API, Bifrost, By, IPMI, Ironic, Ironic-Inspector, It, Networking-generic-switch, Nova Baremetal, PXE, Redfish, Redfish API, Since, Some, Sushy
related to Object storage (Swift) · 15
OpenStack → API, Cloud Files, HP, IBM, In August, Intel, It's, NTT, OpenStack Object Storage, Rackspace, Red Hat, Swift, SwiftStack, The, The OpenStack Object Store
related to Shared file system (Manila) · 15
OpenStack → API, Ceph, Commercial, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, INFINIDAT, Manila, NetApp, OpenStack Shared File System, Oracle, Quobyte, Red Hat GlusterFS, Standard
related to Dashboard (Horizon) · 14
OpenStack → API, APIs, Between, Core Support, Horizon, Keystone, Nova, OpenStack's Dashboard, Settings, Swift, System Dashboard, The Horizon, User Dashboard, Using
related to Block storage (Cinder) · 13
OpenStack → Be, Cinder, Component, Failures, Ironic, Isolated, Nova, OpenStack Block Storage, Quickly, Scale, Some, Standards, Tolerant
related to Appliances · 11
OpenStack → An OpenStack Appliance, Appliance, Appliances, Distributions, However, If, It, Therefore, Thus, Typically, Vendors
related to Compute (Nova) · 11
OpenStack → AMQP, Eventlet, It, Kombu, Linux, Nova, Object Relational Mapper, Python, Rather, SQL, SQLAlchemy
related to Historical names · 11
OpenStack → Designate, Marconi, Moniker, Neutron, Quantum, RedDwarf, Sahara, Savanna, Several OpenStack, Trove, Zaqar
related to history · 11
OpenStack → Austin, In July, NASA, NASA Nebula, NASA's Nebula, October, Open Source Cloud Computing, Rackspace, Rackspace Hosting, Rackspace's Cloud Files, The

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cloud project api services service software release support nasa storage open provides virtual nova system servers projects data users swift

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
OpenStackDevelopersOpen Infrastructure Foundation and community1.00infobox
OpenStackLicenseApache License 2.01.00infobox
OpenStackOriginal authorsRackspace Hosting and NASA1.00infobox
OpenStackPlatformCross-platform1.00infobox
OpenStackRelease21 October 2010; 15 years ago (2010-10-21)1.00infobox
OpenStackRepositoryopendev.org/openstack1.00infobox
OpenStackStable release2026.1 Gazpacho / 1 April 2026; 4 months ago (1 April 2026)1.00infobox
OpenStackTypeCloud computing1.00infobox
OpenStackWebsitewww.openstack.org1.00infobox
OpenStackWritten inPython1.00infobox
OpenStackis afree0.90text
a firewallinstance ofOpenStack Networking enables projects to create advanced virtual network topologies which may include services0.80text

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