Introduction

Overview

OpenStack is a community, a project, and open-source software. It provides open-source software for building public and private clouds. It provides a cloud platform or tool set to deploy clouds and helps organizations run virtual computing or storage cloud services, providing scalable and flexible cloud computing for public clouds, private clouds, big clouds, and small clouds.

OpenStack is an open-source cloud computing management platform that consists of multiple components. OpenStack supports almost all types of cloud environments. It aims to provide a cloud computing management platform featuring easy implementation, large-scale expansion, rich functions, and unified standards. OpenStack provides an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) solution through various complementary services. Each service provides an API for integration.

Recommended Version

The recommended versions are Stein and Rocky.

This document describes how to deploy OpenStack Stein. For OpenStack Rocky, refer to relevant content. The differences are described in detail.

Parent topic: OpenStack Rocky & Stein Deployment Guide (CentOS 7.6)