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OpenStack: Core Components

OpenStack is an open source cloud software which consists of a series of allied projects controlling large pools of computing, storage, and network resources in a data center while managing through a dashboard. Let's look in detail at its various core components.

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OpenStack is an open source cloud software which consists of a series of allied projects controlling large pools of computing, storage, and network resources in a data center while managing through a dashboard. It is designed to run on commodity hardware such as ARM and x86.

OpenStack has grown into a large community with over 9000 contributors and nearly 500 companies since its initial release in 2010, by NASA and Rackspace. OpenStack.org released it under the Apache license 2.0.

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OpenStack helps your business run faster and delivers cost-effective infrastructure to manage data analytics, transactions, and business applications.

OpenStack Components

OpenStack consists of multiple components with a modular architecture and various code names. Let’s have a brief look at the components of OpenStack.

Compute (Nova)

OpenStack Compute is a cloud computing fabric controller, which manages pools of computer resources and work with virtualization technologies, bare metals, and high-performance computing configurations. Nova’s architecture provides flexibility to design the cloud with no proprietary software or hardware requirements and also delivers the ability to integrate the legacy systems and third-party products.

Nova can be deployed using hypervisor technologies such as KVM, VMware, LXC, XenServer, etc. It is used to manage numerous virtual machines and other instances that handle various computing tasks.

Image Service (Glance)

OpenStack image service offers discovering, registering, and restoring virtual machine images. Glance has client-server architecture and delivers a user REST API, which allows querying of virtual machine image metadata and also retrieval of the actual image. While deploying new virtual machine instances, Glance uses the stored images as templates.

OpenStack Glance supports Raw, VirtualBox (VDI), VMWare (VMDK, OVF), Hyper-V (VHD), and Qemu/KVM (qcow2) virtual machine images.

Object Storage (Swift)

OpenStack Swift creates redundant, scalable data storage to store petabytes of accessible data. The stored data can be leveraged, retrieved and updated. It has a distributed architecture, providing greater redundancy, scalability, and performance, with no central point of control.

Swift is a profoundly available, shared, eventually consistent object store. It helps organizations to store lots of data safely, cheaply and efficiently. Swift ensures data replication and distribution over various devices, which makes it ideal for cost-effective, scale-out storage.

Dashboard (Horizon)

Horizon is the authorized implementation of OpenStack’s Dashboard, which is the only graphical interface to automate cloud-based resources. To service providers and other commercial vendors, it supports with third party services such as monitoring, billing, and other management tools. Developers can automate tools to manage OpenStack resources using EC2 compatibility API or the native OpenStack API.

Identity Service (Keystone)

Keystone provides a central list of users, mapped against all the OpenStack services, which they can access. It integrates with existing backend services such as LDAP while acting as a common authentication system across the cloud computing system.

Keystone supports various forms of authentication like standard username & password credentials, AWS-style (Amazon Web Services) logins and token-based systems. Additionally, the catalog provides an endpoint registry with a queryable list of the services deployed in an OpenStack cloud.

Networking (Neutron)

Neutron provides networking capability like managing networks and IP addresses for OpenStack. It ensures that the network is not a limiting factor in a cloud deployment and offers users with self-service ability over network configurations. OpenStack networking allows users to create their own networks and connect devices and servers to one or more networks. Developers can use SDN technology to support great levels of multi-tenancy and massive scale.

Neutron also offers an extension framework, which supports deploying and managing of other network services such as virtual private networks (VPN), firewalls, load balancing, and intrusion detection system (IDS)

Block Storage (Cinder)

OpenStack Cinder delivers determined block-level storage devices for application with OpenStack compute instances. A cloud user can manage their storage needs by integrating block storage volumes with Dashboard and Nova.

Cinder can use storage platforms such as Linux server, EMC (ScaleIO, VMAX, and VNX), Ceph, Coraid, CloudByte, IBM, Hitachi data systems, SAN volume controller, etc. It is appropriate for expandable file systems and database storage.

Telemetry (Ceilometer)

Ceilometer delivers a single point of contact for billing systems obtaining all of the measurements to authorize customer billing across all OpenStack core components. By monitoring notifications from existing services, developers can collect the data and may configure the type of data to meet their operating requirements.

Orchestration (Heat)

Heat is a service to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications through both the CloudFormation-compatible Query API and OpenStack-native REST API, using the AWS CloudFormation template format.

Conclusion

Though OpenStack is made up of several other components because of its open nature, the OpenStack community has recognized these nine components as the core components.

OpenStack will help your business in accelerating the time-to-market, integrating with a variety of key businesses, and delivering the most value from the cloud. So, enterprises need to consider building their cloud platform with OpenStack.

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