OpenStack is a popular open source private cloud or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) project, covering compute, storage, and network management. OpenStack was introduced in 2010 by Rackspace and NASA, and its initial code came from NASA's Nebula and Rackspace Cloud Files platform.
OpenStack was born after a joint effort between NASA and Rackspace, who decided to take Nebula to the next level. It became popular and got many developer resources from different countries and large companies.
Red Hat, Canonical, and Mirantis started building their own OpenStack distribution with easy-to-use installer and provisioning tools. OpenStack is growing, with two releases per year.
OpenStack is a combination ...