OpenStack

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OpenStack

Original author(s)	Rackspace Hosting and NASA
Developer(s)	Open Infrastructure Foundation and community
Initial release	21 October 2010; 13 years ago (2010-10-21)
Stable release	Antelope 2023.1[1] / 22 March 2023; 15 months ago (2023-03-22)
Repository	opendev.org/openstack
Written in	Python
Platform	Cross-platform
Type	Cloud computing
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	www.openstack.org

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]