Openstack Notes


OpenStack ships with a number of system services which are summarized below:

 Barbican - Provides secure storage, provisioning and management of secret data
 Ceilometer - Data collection service that provides teh ability to normalise and transform data across all openstack components
 Cinder - Block storage as a service
 CloudKitty - Rating as a service project aimed at translating Ceilometer metrics to prices.
 Congress - Define the policy and enforce across a cluster as things change.
 Designate - DNS service for automating DNS updates to Bind / PowerDNS.
 Glance - Provides a way to upload and discover data assets (e.g., vm images)
 Heat - Orchestrated cloud applications using a template format thorough a REST API
 Horizon - Dashboard
 Ironic - provision physicla hardware
 Keystone - Provides API client authentication and service discovery
 Magnum - Container orchestration
 Murano - Application cataloging
 Neutron - Provides network connectivity as a service between interface devices
 Nova - Compute service
 Sahara - Service to provision data processing frameworks (hadoop)
 Searchlight - Indexing and search capabilities built on top of elasticsearch and lucene
 Senlin - Clustering solution for cloud resources
 Swift - Highly available and distributed object/blog store
 Tacker - Openstack service for VNF (Virtual network functions)  orchestration
 Trove - Database as a service
 Watcher - Provides a resource optimization service
 Zaqar - Cloud messaging and noticication service for web and mobile developers
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