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History
18 related topics
Components
30 related topics
OpenStack development
10 related topics
Distributions
7 related topics
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
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Free Free software
- Open standard Open-source software
- Infrastructure-as-a-service Cloud computing
- Data center
- Command-line Command-line interface
- RESTful REST
- Rackspace Hosting Rackspace Technology
- NASA
- Swift OpenStack
History
- Nebula Nebula (computing platform)
- Rackspace's Cloud Files platform Rackspace Cloud
- Ubuntu
- Natty Narwhal Ubuntu natty
- Canonical Canonical (company)
- Debian Sid
- SUSE SUSE S.A.
- Amazon Web Services
- Ames Research Center
- Government Digital Service
- HP Helion HPE Helion
- Interop
- Tech Field Day
- Avaya
- Shortest path bridging
- China Mobile
- CERN
- Large Hadron Collider
OpenStack development
Components
- AMQP Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
- SQLAlchemy
- RabbitMQ
- DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- Floating IP Virtual IP address
- Software-defined networking
- OpenFlow
- Multi-tenancy
- Intrusion detection systems Intrusion detection system
- Load balancing Load balancing (computing)
- Firewalls Firewall (computing)
- Virtual private networks Virtual private network
- LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- Rackspace
- SwiftStack SwiftStack?action=edit&redlink=1
- Intel
- Red Hat
- NTT Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
- HP HP Inc.
- IBM
- Orchestrate Orchestration (computing)
- Relational Relational database
- Database
- Hadoop Apache Hadoop
- PXE Preboot Execution Environment
- IPMI Intelligent Platform Management Interface
- Redfish Redfish (specification)
- GlusterFS
- Ceph Ceph (software)
- Elasticsearch
Compatibility with other cloud APIs
- Amazon EC2 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Google Compute Engine
Appliances
- Servers Server (computing)
- Virtual machines Virtual machine
- Software appliance
- Distribution Linux distribution
Challenges to implementation
- Service-level agreements Service-level agreement
Distributions
- Bright Computing
- Debian
- HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Mirantis
- Oracle Oracle Corporation
- Stratoscale
- VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) VMware
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.
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.OpenStack
Nodes90
Edges89
Triples254
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
Quick relationship hints grouped by predicate. Useful for spotting recurring semantic connections around the current entity.See the strongest relationship patterns around the current topic before diving into the raw triples.
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 Word statistics
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.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
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStack | Developers | Open Infrastructure Foundation and community | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | License | Apache License 2.0 | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Original authors | Rackspace Hosting and NASA | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Platform | Cross-platform | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Release | 21 October 2010; 15 years ago (2010-10-21) | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Repository | opendev.org/openstack | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Stable release | 2026.1 Gazpacho / 1 April 2026; 4 months ago (1 April 2026) | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Type | Cloud computing | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Website | www.openstack.org | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | Written in | Python | 1.00 | infobox |
| OpenStack | is a | free | 0.90 | text |
| a firewall | instance of | OpenStack Networking enables projects to create advanced virtual network topologies which may include services | 0.80 | text |
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Clusters of nearby vocabulary surrounding the topic. Scan them for adjacent concepts and language you may have missed.These clusters group vocabulary that occurs around closely connected concepts in the source material.
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Bridge nodes connect otherwise separate parts of the map. Expand a row to inspect the topic groups on each side.Bridges can reveal useful research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list of related terms.
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