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.