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OpenStack: History & Standards

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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OpenStack topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Standards as prominent areas in the source structure around OpenStack.

Related topics
81
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
89
Extracted relationships
254
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
89

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Components · 30 topics
History · 18 topics
OpenStack development · 10 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Distributions · 7 topics
Appliances · 4 topics
Compatibility with other cloud APIs · 2 topics
Challenges to implementation · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

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

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

OpenStack development

Components

Compatibility with other cloud APIs

Appliances

Challenges to implementation

Distributions

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How OpenStack connects Entity context

The extracted context around OpenStack shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, 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 Another extracted example is OpenStack → API, Bifrost, By, IPMI, Ironic, Ironic-Inspector, It, Networking-generic-switch, Nova Baremetal, PXE, Redfish, Redfish API, Since, Some, Sushy. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

OpenStack

Top relations

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

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

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

OpenStack relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 254 structured relationships around OpenStack. Examples in this analysis include OpenStack → Developers → Open Infrastructure Foundation and community and OpenStack → License → Apache License 2.0. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around OpenStack bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Project, Release and Api. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • OpenStack
    • Project
    • Release
    • Api
    • Support
    • Services
    • Virtual
    • Community
    • Nova
    • Provides
    • Service
    • Announced
    • Nasa
  • openstack
    • Project
    • Release
    • Api
    • Support
    • Services
    • Virtual
    • Community
    • Nova
    • Provides
    • Service
    • Announced
    • Nasa
  • open standard
    • Infrastructure
    • Foundation
    • Platform
    • Rackspace
    • Cloud
    • Announced
    • Known
    • Nasa
    • Provide
    • Developers
    • Storage
    • System
  • rackspace's cloud files platform
    • Platform
    • Open
    • Rackspace
    • Openstack
    • Infrastructure
    • Components
    • Networking
    • Nasa
    • Using
    • Storage
    • System
    • Software
  • software-defined networking
    • Virtual
    • Infrastructure
    • Platform
    • Data
    • Storage
    • Support
    • Rackspace
    • Services
    • Openstack
    • Announced
    • Community
    • Foundation
  • virtual private networks
    • Machines
    • Ironic
    • Servers
    • Networking
    • Services
    • Nova
    • Storage
    • Openstack
    • Software
    • Support
    • Project
    • Infrastructure
  • virtual machines
    • Machines
    • Virtual
    • Ironic
    • Servers
    • Networking
    • Use
    • Services
    • Nova
    • Storage
    • Software
    • Support
    • Openstack
  • software appliance
    • Storage
    • System
    • Appliance
    • Known
    • Software
    • Swift
    • Machines
    • Data
    • Virtual
    • Release
    • Cloud
    • May

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For OpenStack, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects OpenStack with Components. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
OpenStack — Components · splits 59 ⟂ 31
OpenStack — History · splits 71 ⟂ 19
OpenStack — OpenStack development · splits 79 ⟂ 11
OpenStack — Overview · splits 80 ⟂ 10
OpenStack — Distributions · splits 82 ⟂ 8
OpenStack — Appliances · splits 85 ⟂ 5
OpenStack — Compatibility with other cloud APIs · splits 87 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

OpenStack

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

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around OpenStack to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Standards, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — OpenStack · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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