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A fast start for an open-source cloud

By Alex Handy

September 2, 2010 — (Page 1 of 3)
In July, Citrix, NASA, Rackspace and a host of other companies announced that they were forming the OpenStack project. This two-pronged effort aims to construct the open-source pieces needed to provide cloud infrastructure both on the desktop for testing and in the data center for cloud hosting. Thus far, OpenStack consists of a generally available object-storage system and compute-cluster management system, which are slated for an Oct. 21 release.

Rackspace is taking on most of the work to build OpenStack, but the object-storage component of the stack is a direct software release that runs behind Rackspace Cloud's storage system. The compute portion of OpenStack will be a combination of NASA's Nebula project and Rackspace's own internal software. But according to three of the men tasked with growing and maintaining this new community, it has already made thousands of code contributions in the six short weeks since the platform's announcement.

SD Times: How did you come to choose NASA's Nebula project for OpenStack?
Mark Collier, vice president of community and business development, OpenStack and Rackspace: The compute project started with some good code from NASA's Nebula project. In that case, we were looking at other projects out there to see if there was something we could use, or should we release the code we had developed at Rackspace.

We discovered that this code NASA had written was very strong. They'd run into a lot of the challenges we'd seen running at scale. Where you'll see us going with the compute project is there are a lot of people contributing in the community, but a lot of the chunks of code from Rackspace Cloud and NASA are already done. In the weeks since launch, we've seen a huge outpouring in the community. Citrix has been very active in providing support for Xen Server.

One of the goals we had from the beginning is to be hypervisor agnostic. That's happened much faster than we expected. Thanks to contributions from the community, we now support KVM, Xen and VirtualBox.

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