The War for Open Source Clouds
Little study about the recent release of CloudStack as Apache Licence. Little battle between OpenStack and CloudStack, FIGHT!
Overview
OpenStack | CloudStack | |
Started | 2010 | 2008 |
Langage | Python | Java |
Release cycle | 6 months | 6 months |
Current version | 5 | 3 |
Licensing | Apache | Apache |
Category | Framework | Cloud operating system |
Lead by | Community | Citrix |
Driven by | Rackspace | Citrix |
Contributors | 160 | 16 |
Site |
Distro ready
OpenStack | CloudStack | |
Ubuntu | ||
Debian | ||
OpenSUSE | ||
REHL | ||
CentOS | ||
Fedora |
Core components
OpenStack | CloudStack |
Nova | All-in-one |
Swift | One cloud management machine |
Glance | X hypervisors nodes |
Keystone | |
Horizon |
Hypervisor support
OpenStack | CloudStack | |
KVM | ||
VmWare | ||
Xen | ||
Oracle VM | ||
Hyper-V | ||
XenServer | ||
Xen Cloud Platform |
Relevant Features
OpenStack | CloudStack |
Mature object storage (swift) | Out-of-the-box |
Nova core fairly stable | Robust compute core |
Hype | Well documented |
Trendy marketing impact | Rich Management User Interface (company/customer side) |
Native AWS API set |
Biggest Lacks
OpenStack | CloudStack |
Networking management, will be solved with Quantum in Folsom release | No object storage |
Less attention and participation than OpenStack | |
Community |
Community statistics
OpenStack | CloudStack | |
Forum total posts | 1853 | 4241 |
Forum total topics | 458 | 1247 |
Forum total users | 633 | 8269 |
Mailing list messages | 9604 | 539 |
Mailing list active members | 2907 | ??? |
##What’s next?##
OpenStack cloud gains version, loses Citrix
- Experts immediately said that there is no big impact for OpenStack
- OpenStack Swift win!
- OpenStack breakthrough for Folsom release ? (Quantum addition)
http://gigaom.com/cloud/5-takeaways-from-the-cloudstack-openstack-dustup/
#CloudStack released as Apache license
About the recent CloudStack license release
This action was well planned by Citrix and has several goals:
- Attract new contributors and developers
- Increase the product visibility
- Big boost for the developments and community
##Why now?
- Eclipsing the new release of OpenStack
- 2 weeks after the Amazon and Eucalyptus partnership ; joined forces to lock public and private cloud
- Citrix officials said during a conference call they wanted a platform that would embrace Amazon Web Services, the market-leading IaaS provider, and they did not believe OpenStack does that.
##Citrix evil plan?
By releasing CloudStack has Apache license Citrix fractured the open-source cloud alliance against Amazon and in the meantime abandoned the Olympus project
- Increase adoption of his platform
- AWS API win!
- Rise of the XenServer?
But what Citrix will do after many years of adoption? (if CloudStack overcame OpenStack)
Bad future scenario
At the end you will be able to run your critical applications in your private cloud using CloudStack under an OpenStack swift layer (funny), from time to time you will need extra instances or simply need to run a public cloud. De facto you will use both AWS API and Eucalyptus tools to manage it. Eucalyptus tools will help you to migrate your workloads between your CloudStack private cloud and Amazon Web Services. This will bring you facilities to create, manage and maintain your hybrid cloud.
Note: The tables were created with http://www.compareninja.com
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