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RightScale vs OpenNebula: What are the differences?
Developers describe RightScale as "Manage all of your cloud infrastructure with a single, integrated solution". Automation is the core of RightScale, freeing you to run efficient, scalable, and highly-available applications. Our multi-cloud integration enables you to choose your own clouds, providing freedom to work with any vendor in a rapidly changing market. And rest assured knowing that you have visibility and control over all of your resources in one place. To take advantage of best practices, we encourage you to tap into cloud expertise provided by our service, support, and partner networks when building and managing your infrastructure. On the other hand, OpenNebula is detailed as "A cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures". 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.
RightScale and OpenNebula belong to "Cloud Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by RightScale are:
- Supports: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe, Google Cloud Platform, HP Cloud, IDCF — Yahoo! Japan, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Windows Azure, CloudStack, OpenStack
- Access, manage, and configure all of your resources — compute, networking, and storage — across all of your clouds.
- See and manipulate all of your cloud servers in one place.
On the other hand, OpenNebula provides the following key features:
- Flexible
- Robust
- Powerful Auto-Scaling
OpenNebula is an open source tool with 501 GitHub stars and 284 GitHub forks. Here's a link to OpenNebula's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, RightScale has a broader approval, being mentioned in 6 company stacks & 4 developers stacks; compared to OpenNebula, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
