Apache CloudStack

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CloudStack
Original author(s) Cloud.com, Citrix
Developer(s) Apache Software Foundation
Stable release
4.18.x (LTS)4.18.2.0 / April 25, 2024;5 months ago (2024-04-25) [1]
4.17.x (LTS)4.17.2.0 / December 16, 2022;21 months ago (2022-12-16) [1]
Repository CloudStack Repository
Written in Java (primarily), Python
Platform Java
Type Cloud computing
License Apache License 2.0
Website cloudstack.apache.org

CloudStack is open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud computing software for creating, managing, and deploying infrastructure cloud services. It uses existing hypervisor platforms for virtualization, such as KVM, VMware vSphere, including ESXi and vCenter, XenServer/XCP and XCP-ng. In addition to its own API, CloudStack also supports the Amazon Web Services (AWS) API [2] and the Open Cloud Computing Interface from the Open Grid Forum. [3]

Contents

History

CloudStack was originally developed by Cloud.com, formerly known as VMOps. [4]

VMOps was founded by Sheng Liang, Shannon Williams, Alex Huang, Will Chan, and Chiradeep Vittal in 2008. [5] [6] The company raised a total of $17.6M in venture funding [7] from Redpoint Ventures, Nexus Ventures and Index Ventures (Redpoint and Nexus led the initial Series A funding round). The company changed its name from VMOps to Cloud.com on May 4, 2010, when it emerged from stealth mode by announcing its product. [8] [4] [9] Cloud.com was based in Cupertino, California.

In May 2010, Cloud.com released most of CloudStack as free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3 (GPLv3). [10] They kept about 5% proprietary. [11] Cloud.com and Citrix both supported OpenStack, another Apache-licensed cloud computing program, at its announcement in July 2010. [12] [13] [14]

In October 2010, Cloud.com announced a partnership with Microsoft to develop the code to provide integration and support of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V to the OpenStack project. [15]

Citrix Systems purchased Cloud.com on July 12, 2011, for approximately $200 million. [16] [17] [18] In August 2011, Citrix released the remaining code under the Apache Software License with further development governed by the Apache Foundation. [11] In February 2012, Citrix released CloudStack 3.0. Among other features, this added support for Swift, OpenStack's S3-like object storage solution. [19]

In April 2012, Citrix donated CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), where it was accepted into the Apache Incubator; Citrix changed the license to the Apache License version 2. As part of this change, Citrix also ceased their involvement in OpenStack. [20] On November 6, 2012, CloudStack 4.0.0-incubating was announced, [21] the first stable release after joining ASF. On March 20, 2013, CloudStack graduated from Apache Incubator and became a Top-Level Project (TLP) of ASF. [22] The first stable (maintenance) release after graduation is CloudStack 4.0.2. [23]

Key features

[24]

Supported Hypervisors

Hypervisor [25] VersionEOL (End Of Life)
VMware vSphere6.515/10/2022 [26]
VMware vSphere6.715/10/2022 [26]
VMware vSphere7.002/04/2025 [26]
VMware vSphere8.011/10/2029
Citrix Hypervisor7.112/12/2023 [27]
Citrix Hypervisor7.212/12/2023 [27]
Citrix Hypervisor7.412/12/2023 [27]
Citrix Hypervisor7.512/12/2023 [27]
Citrix Hypervisor8.025/07/2025 [28]
XCP-ng7.431/12/2018 [28]
XCP-ng7.630/03/2020 [28]
XCP-ng8.013/11/2020 [28]
XCP-ng8.131/03/2021 [28]
XCP-ng8.225/06/2025 [28]
Centos / Red Hat  KVM730/08/2021 [29]
Centos / Red Hat  KVM831/05/2029 [29]
Rocky/Alma Linux / Red Hat KVM931 May 2034
Ubuntu / KVM182028 [30]
Ubuntu / KVM202030 [30]
Ubuntu / KVM222027
Opensuse Leap / KVM1504/01/2022 [31]
Suse Linux Enterprise Server1531/07/2028 [32]
Rocky Linux82029 [33]
Red Hat / LXC730/08/2021 [29]
Microsoft Hyper-V2012 R210/10/2023 [34]

BareMetal hosts

Deployment architecture

The minimum production installation consists of one machine running the CloudStack Management Server and another machine to act as the cloud infrastructure (in this case, a very simple infrastructure consisting of one host running hypervisor software). In its smallest deployment, a single machine can act as both the Management Server and the hypervisor host (using the KVM hypervisor). [35]

Multiple management servers can be configured for redundancy and load balancing, all pointing to a common MySQL database.

Users

In July 2012 it was reported that Datapipe launched the largest international public cloud to be built on CloudStack, which included 6 data centers in the US, Britain, and Asia. [36]

Events

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2023

CloudStack India User Group

CloudStack European User Group

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022 (Hybrid), Hybrid Event, November 14–16, 2022

CloudStack European User Group (vCSEUG), Virtual Event, 7 April 2022

CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2021, Virtual Event, November 8–12

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