Why developers like OpenStack

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

OpenStack is a tool in the Open Source Cloud category of a tech stack.

Who uses OpenStack?

Companies

114 companies reportedly use OpenStack in their tech stacks, including Hubspot, doubleSlash, and Trendyol Group.

Hubspot

doubleSlash

Trendyol Group

Wikipedia

SurveyMonkey

Ericsson

Intel

Best Buy

Teradata

Developers

623 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenStack.

Codibook

Natue

Data analysis

Nuvem Educativa

IOCLOUDSTACK

Packages Used

Oracle Cloud PaaS

Justin Hourigan

Stiebke

OpenStack Integrations

Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, Fastly, and Packer are some of the popular tools that integrate with OpenStack. Here's a list of all 31 tools that integrate with OpenStack.

Terraform

Ansible

Rancher

Fastly

Packer

Spinnaker

Cloud Foundry

StackStorm

Mesosphere

Pros of OpenStack

Private cloud

Avoid vendor lock-in

Flexible in use

Industry leader

Supported by many companies in top500

Robust architecture

Decisions about OpenStack

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose OpenStack in their tech stack.

Hoa Vo Duong

CIO at CSD GROUP · Jun 20, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 22.6K views

Needs advice

Apache CloudStack

and

OpenStack

I want to deploy Private Cloud. But don't know between CloudStack and OpenStack. Which is easy for deployment and management. Please help to advise.

Syed Zeeshan Shah

May 21, 2021 | 5 upvotes · 194.4K views

Needs advice

and

Hello guys

I am confused between choosing CentOS7 or centos8 for OpenStack tripleo undercloud deployment. Which one should I use? There is another option to use OpenStack, Ubuntu, or MicroStack.

We wanted to use this deployment to build our home cloud or private cloud infrastructure. I heard that centOS is always the best choice through a little research, but still not sure. As centos8 from Redhat is not supported for OpenStack tripleo deployments anymore, I had to upgrade to CentosStream.

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OpenStack's Features

Compute
Storage
Networking
Dashboard
Shared Services

OpenStack Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to OpenStack?

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

Cloud Foundry

Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service (PaaS) that provides a choice of clouds, developer frameworks, and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy, and scale applications.

Kubernetes

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

Docker

The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere

KVM

KVM (for Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions (Intel VT or AMD-V).

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