Apache CloudStack vs OpenStack

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Apache CloudStack vs OpenStack: What are the differences?

Developers describe Apache CloudStack as "Open Source Cloud Computing". Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. On the other hand, OpenStack is detailed as "Open source software for building private and public clouds". 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.

Apache CloudStack and OpenStack can be categorized as "Open Source Cloud" tools.

Some of the features offered by Apache CloudStack are:

  • Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere
  • Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud
  • Provides a native API

On the other hand, OpenStack provides the following key features:

  • Compute
  • Storage
  • Networking

"Apache CloudStack works" is the top reason why over 9 developers like Apache CloudStack, while over 35 developers mention "Private cloud" as the leading cause for choosing OpenStack.

Apache CloudStack is an open source tool with 746 GitHub stars and 714 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Apache CloudStack's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Apache CloudStack
Pros of OpenStack
  • 13
    Apache CloudStack works
  • 12
    Multi hypervisor
  • 9
    Real open source software
  • 9
    Easy setup
  • 9
    Open architecture
  • 8
    Hybrid Cloud integration
  • 7
    Community support
  • 6
    Secure
  • 6
    Simple
  • 4
    Scalable
  • 1
    Easy to use API
  • 56
    Private cloud
  • 37
    Avoid vendor lock-in
  • 22
    Flexible in use
  • 6
    Industry leader
  • 4
    Supported by many companies in top500
  • 4
    Robust architecture

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What is Apache CloudStack?

It is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.

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.

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What are some alternatives to Apache CloudStack and OpenStack?
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.
OpenNebula
It provides a simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable on-premise enterprise clouds in existing infrastructures. It can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtual infrastructure in the data-center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. It supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is open source software for building private, AWS-compatible IT, QA, and developer clouds. It makes it easy to deliver cloud computing, just like AWS, from within your data center.
MaaS
MAAS (Metal as a Service) offers cloud style provisioning for physical servers. It is open source and free to use, with commercial support available from Canonical.
VirtKick
Software as a service platform for hosting providers.
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