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| Original author(s) | Rackspace Hosting and NASA |
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| Developer(s) | Open Infrastructure Foundation and community |
| Initial release | 21 October 2010 |
| Stable release | 2024.1 Caracal[1]
/ 3 April 2024 |
| Repository | opendev |
| Written in | Python |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Cloud computing |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | www |
OpenStack is a free, open standard cloud computing platform. It is mostly deployed as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in both public and private clouds where virtual servers and other resources are made available to users.[2] The software platform consists of interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users manage it either through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web services.
OpenStack began in 2010 as a joint project of Rackspace Hosting and NASA. As of 2012[update], it was managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012[3] to promote OpenStack software and its community.[4] By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the project.[5] In 2020 the foundation announced it would be renamed the Open Infrastructure Foundation in 2021.[6]
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- ^ Lardinois, Frederic (19 October 2020). "The OpenStack Foundation becomes the Open Infrastructure Foundation". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 16 July 2021.