Building a distributed data center isn’t an everyday task for many people, but if it is for you, there’s a high chance you will use for the job. OpenStack isn’t one project, but a selection of dozens of open source projects that you combine to suit your requirements. The most popular and mature projects are: OpenStack for compute services, including bare metal, containers and virtual machines. Nova for software-defined networking. Neutron for object and blob storage. Swift for discovering, registering, and retrieving virtual machine images. Glance for client authentication. Keystone for block storage. Cinder I spoke with Thierry Carrez, Release Manager for the OpenStack project about how he coordinates a large number of contributors to the project, balancing diverse commercial and cultural differences whilst still maintaining a regular release cycle. We spoke in the week of the latest release, , and if you happen to be in the vicinity of Sydney in November, then you should attend the . Pike OpenStack Summit Originally published at dzone.com . Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

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