About OpenStack

OpenStack is a cloud operating system specifically designed to control large amounts of storage, compute and networking resources. The software is managed through a data center and APIs with common authentication mechanisms.


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Value for Money
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Martin
Martin
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

OpenSource cloud virtualization tool

Reviewed on 2023/05/09

We use OpenStack to provide automatized solution for our clients. It was popular and contains...

We use OpenStack to provide automatized solution for our clients. It was popular and contains open-source solution for cloud virtualization. Nowadays the popularity dropped down so we slowly dropping support.

Pros

The whole architecture is divided into entities which collaborate with their functionalities across system. OpenStack provides web interface for their management. You can use CLI interface to call stack functions. It also provides SDK for some programming languages to automatize entities management.

Cons

The web interface for management is a bit more complex and difficult to understand. In compare with another commercial solutions it lacks some extended features. The popularity of OpenStack dropped in-time.

Alicia
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  • Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The Perfect Open Source Cloud Management Platform

Reviewed on 2023/01/29

Overall, you can not beat an open-source operating system that manages and stores your data and...

Overall, you can not beat an open-source operating system that manages and stores your data and network resources. If you are looking for a cloud system, I would definitely use openstack!

Pros

There are a lot of new features and this platform has an active contributing community. It is very easy to track resources using the dashboard interface.

Cons

There is a steep learning curve with this product, ultimately I had it set up for me because it was challenging to configure on my own. The user interaction was not beginner friendly.

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Gurleen
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

OpenStack - A open-source software platform for cloud computing.

Reviewed on 2019/02/18

I am working with the OpenStack IaaS from past many years and it surely increases the software...

I am working with the OpenStack IaaS from past many years and it surely increases the software delivery speed. The unified management helps in tracking the CloudForm cost. We can also control our resource accounting to the compliance of the product.

Pros

OpenStack is a open-source software platform used for cloud computing. Rackspace Hosting and NASA mutually launched it in 2010. OpenStack architecture is simple and easy to understand and implement. The Heat orchestration provide an ample amount of template to implement the main service pipeline. It simplifies the control for managing the large amount of computing, storage and networking. Dashboard gives the complete infrastructural view and gives the platform to administrate the things in the single web interface. Managing the virtualization of storage, CPU, memory and other resource is easy with using IaaS.

Cons

Public, Private cloud distribution work more efficiently but it needs huge time to setup according to your infrastructures requirement and same time we need for the upgrade of service or product. The other thing I least like in it is management of containers should be more simple as it is one of the most useful feature of OpenStack.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Telecommunications
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

OpenStack User Review

Reviewed on 2022/08/12

Very great product . Saves a lot of user/company cost due to maximizing the hardware usage using...

Very great product . Saves a lot of user/company cost due to maximizing the hardware usage using VM's.
Easy to use and operate by end user . Few simple clicks will lead to a great world of cloud

Pros

Very easy to tack the usage and resources using dashboard.
Easy to create/delete/modify VM's.
Lot of saving in term of actual hardware usage

Cons

Deployment is bit tedious.
Some GUI forms can be improved.
Example templates can be given.

Prasuk
Prasuk
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

The revolution in the Cloud

Reviewed on 2019/02/27

Pros

Whatever could be done is being done by openstack foundation. A plenty of projects are being ran under the Openstack foundation, be it core services like Network, Compute, Storage or additional services Containerization, Microservices everything is here at openstack.

Cons

The Openstack being opensource has a lot of things to be done yet the contributors are put a lot of there efforts for a fully stable Openstack.

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OpenStack FAQs

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OpenStack offers the following pricing plans:

  • Free Trial: Not Available

Contact Rackspace for pricing details.

OpenStack has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200

OpenStack supports the following languages:

English, German, Portuguese, Spanish

OpenStack supports the following devices:

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OpenStack offers the following support options:

Phone Support, Chat

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