What is OpenStack?
I have tried to understand what OpenStack is but I can't penetrate the shield of marketing buzz words that surrounds everything that is called "the cloud".
I would be happy if someone could give me a practical example on how this "tool" could be used.
Openstack is basically a bunch of tools to setup a large-scale virtualization environment... where you can quickly create & manage virtual machines through a GUI, and keep track of what is going on. It's another framework similar to Amazon's EC2 and S3 services. There are others similar to this, like Eucalyptus and CloudStack.
Some of the many ways to apply such a thing can include:
the possibilities are endless... but honestly setting up your own cloud can be more work than doing without. After you take into consideration the amount of time it takes to build the framework, then build the images... etc. It's definitely not geared towards a small deployment of 2-3 servers.
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