An introduction to Apache Cloud Stack

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Apache Cloud Stack

• What is it ?
• Details
• Architecture
• Interfaces
• History

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Apache Cloud Stack What is it ?

• An open source cloud computing system
• Currently under Apache 2 license
• Used for infrastructure cloud services
• Is virtualisation agnostic i.e.
• Can use KVM, VMWare ..
• Designed for large networks
• Designed for high availability

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Apache Cloud Stack Details

• Offers the entire feature stack
• Infrastructure as a service
• Network as a service
• Account management
• Native API
• Good UI
• Supports many hypervisors

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Cloud Stack - Architecture
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Apache Cloud Stack Interfaces

• Web interface
• Command line
• RESTful API
• For hybrid cloud support
• API AWS EC2
• API AWS S3

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Cloud Stack - Architecture
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Apache Cloud Stack History

• Developed by Cloud.com as VMOps (2010)?
• Released via GNU license
• Citrix purchased Cloud.com (2011)?
• Donated to Apache (2012)?
• Released under Apache V2 license
• Graduates from Apache incubator (2013)?

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