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Wednesday 30 July 2014

OpenStack Component Introduction

OpenStack sub projects and components

OpenStack is actually bunch of sub projects including:

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Nova:  Nova is the OpenStack main project related with computing resource management, itself contains component such as Nova-API, Nova-filter, Nova-computer, Nova-volume etc.

Keystone: Keystone is an OpenStack project that provides Identity, Token, Catalog and Policy services for use specifically by projects in the OpenStack family.

Horizon: The OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon) provides a baseline user interface for managing OpenStack services." Dashborad is a Django APP.

Glance: The Glance project provides services for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images.

Quantum/Neutron: are the OpenStack network related projects and the most difficult component at the moment.


Swift: Swift is a multi-tenant, highly scalable and durable object storage system that was designed to store large amounts of unstructured data at low cost via a RESTful HTTP API.

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