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OpenStack - Open Source Software for Building Private and Public Clouds

OpenStack Compute

OpenStack Compute is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances, managing networks, and controlling access through users and projects. OpenStack Compute strives to be both hardware and hypervisor agnostic, currently supporting a variety of standard hardware configurations and seven major hypervisors.

OpenStack Compute Features:

Manage virtualized commodity server resourcesCPU, memory, disk, and network interfaces

Racks of commodity servers as pools of computing. Improved utilization and automation of resources for greater cost efficiencies

Manage Local Area Networks (LAN) Flat, Flat DHCP, VLAN DHCP, IPv6, Programmatically allocate IPs and VLANs VLANs 
For rapid provisioning of network capabilities and security features. Flexible networking models to suit needs of each application and/or user group

API with rate limiting and authentication

Designed for automation and security
Making it easy for you to manage who has access to compute resources and prevents users from impacting each other with excessive API utilization

Distributed and asynchronous architecture

Massively scalable and highly available system for increased assurance of system uptime

Virtual Machine (VM) image management

Easily store, import, share, and query images to make it easy for you to spin up new standardized VMs

Live VM management (Instance)
Run, reboot, suspend, resize, terminate instances

Increase productivity with lifecycle management from a single user interface and using the APIs

Floating IP addresses

Keep IPs & DNS correct when managing VMs

Security Groups

Flexibility to assign and control access to VM instances by creating separation between resource pools 

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Ensure security by user, role and project

Projects & Quotas

Ability to allocate, track and limit resource utilization

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Quick and easy CLI administration