Apache Cloud Stack vs OpenStack

Two of the most popular and successful cloud management platforms (CMP). I have already witnessed the fact that industry is adopting open source based cloud management platform (CMP). In this blog, I will compare these two CMPs Apache CloudStack:

Apache CloudStack is one of the popular and battle-tested OpenSource Cloud Management Platform. Most of the service providers run on top of Apache Cloudstack to power their infrastructure as a service offering. Apache CloudStack supports Citrix XenServer, KVM, VMware, Microsoft HyperV hypervisors.

The cloudstack has only two services as compared to different projects in Openstack (nova, cinder, magnum, keystone, etc).

Subsystem Handled By

Compute: Cloud Management Service
Storage: Cloud Management Service
(Secondary Storage VM) Network Cloud Management Service
(Virtual Router/VPC) Template: Cloud Management Service
(Secondary Storage VM) Performance Metrics: Cloud Management Service
(Native support for PV Drivers installed XenServer VMs) Usage Data Cloud Usage Service Multi-App Deployment: Not available.
Autoscaling Cloud Management Service

Billing : Not available.
Compliance/Auditing Cloud Management Service — Limited
Capacity Planning: Not available.
Post OS Configuration: via Cloud-init Scripts OpenStack

Openstack is the most popular CMP. Definition from openstack.org, OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

Key components of OpenStack:

Components of Openstack are managed via different subproject of Openstack foundation. Projects in Openstack (nova, cinder, magnum, keystone, etc).

Subsystem: Handled By
Copute: Nova Compute Service
Storage: Swift Service : Object Storage
Cinder Service: Block Storage
Network: Neutron Service
Template: Glance Service
Performance Metrics: Ceilometer Service
Usage Data: Ceilometer Service
Multi-App Deployment: Heat Service
Autoscaling: Heat Service
Billing: Not available
Compliance/Auditing: Horizon Dashboard
Capacity Planning: Not available
Post OS Configuration: via Cloud-init Scripts
Orchestration: Heat Service
Governance: Congress
Containers: Magnum

Bare Metal Provisioning: Ironic

As you can see that openstack projects are cleanly organised and designed in such a way that it is extendable to cover broader use cases of

With the so much of granularity, there comes the complexity of install all the projects to get it working together well. One of the key challenges in Openstack is to get it up and running.

Who is the winner out of CloudStack Vs OpenStack?

Answer is: It depends. Cloudstack clearly solves the IaaS needs clearly, while Openstack addresses broader use cases beyond IaaS.

my own choice: apache Cloud Platform (built in 15min from base core installation until production)

Other solutions smilar to apache stack & openstack alternatives turnkey solutions:

all in one & self Hosted solutions (with billing solutions & some of solutions are with minimal pay per month)

Without billing solutions

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