OpenStack

<p>OpenStack is a <a href="/facts/Free_software/IaoVtJXn">free</a>, <a href="/facts/Open-source_software/HzTaB8E9">open standard</a> <a href="/facts/Cloud_computing/guhg0FGV">cloud computing</a> platform. It is mostly deployed as <a href="/facts/Cloud_computing/guhg0FGV">infrastructure-as-a-service</a> (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users. The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a <a href="/facts/Data_center/DS5wJY41">data center</a>. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through <a href="/facts/Command-line_interface/R9JpGmXQ">command-line</a> tools, or through <a href="/facts/REST/4U0bMh35">RESTful</a> web services.
</p><p>OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of <a href="/facts/Rackspace_Technology/4S5ehJgY">Rackspace Hosting</a> and <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a>. As of 2012, it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012 to promote OpenStack software and its community. By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project. In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021.
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