Apache CloudStack

What is Apache CloudStack?

Apache CloudStack is a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The project develops open source software for develoying public and private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (laaS) clouds. Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (laaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part of a hybriad cloud solution. Users can manage their cloud with an easy to use Web interface, command line tools, and/or a full-featured RESTful API. In addition, CloudStack provides an API that's compatible with AWS EC2 and S3 for organizations that wish to deploy hybriad clouds.

Features and Functionality

Apache CloudStack is a Java-based project that provides a management server and agents (if needed) for hypervisor hosts so that you can run an laaS cloud. Some, but not all, of the features and functionality provided by CloudStack

• Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMWare ESXi with vSphere
• Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud
• Provides a native API
• May provide an Amazon S3/EC2 compatible API (optional)
• Manages storage for instances running on the hypervisors (Primary Storage) as well as templates, snapshots, and ISO images (secondary storage)
• Orchestrates network services from the data link layer (L2) to some application layer (L7) services, such as DHCP, NAT, firewall, VPN and so on
• Accounting of network, compute, and storage resources
• Multi-tenancy/account separation
• User management.
  In short, organizations can use Apache CloudStack to deploy a full-featured public or private LaaS cloud.