Description

️ 🖼Tool name:
OpenStack

🔖 Tool category:
• DevOps, CI/CD, and monitoring
• Business and Operations Management
• Integrations and APIs
• No-code workflows
• Automation robot creation
• RPA and repetitive tasks
• Data and analytics

️ ✏What does this tool offer?
OpenStack provides a set of software components for managing cloud infrastructure, including virtual computing devices, physical servers, and containers. The platform allows resource management via application programming interfaces (APIs) or a control panel, with support for advanced features such as automatic orchestration, fault management, and service management to ensure application availability and performance integrity.

What does it actually offer based on user experience?
According to user experiences, OpenStack is trusted to manage hundreds of thousands of cores around the world and is used by major companies such as Blizzard Entertainment to support games, Walmart to manage e-commerce during peak times, and China Mobile to create massive NFV networks. The platform is flexible, customizable, and widely used in private and public clouds and at the edge.

🤖 Does it include automation?
Yes, OpenStack supports resource management automation, autoscaling, fault management, and service orchestration to ensure optimal performance and high availability for applications.

💰 Pricing model:
OpenStack is free and open source, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The only potential costs are related to the infrastructure on which the platform runs or technical support from partners such as OpenInfra or VEXXHOST.

🆓 Free plan details:

  • The entire platform is open source with no license fees

  • Access to all core components for managing computing, storage, and networking

  • Ability to deploy the cloud internally or use partners to run OpenStack on public clouds

💳 Paid plan details:

  • Dedicated support from OpenInfra partners or cloud service providers

  • Consulting services for cloud design, deployment, and management

  • Integration with backup, disaster recovery, and advanced automation solutions

  • Access to additional features depending on the partner or provider

🧭 How to access the tool:
OpenStack can be downloaded and run on your own servers, or you can take advantage of public OpenStack providers in more than 180 data centers around the world. You can also follow project updates and contribute to it through the open community.

🔗 Trial link or official website:
https://www.openstack.org/

Pricing Details

OpenStack is based on a free, open-source pricing model distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, with no fees for the platform itself and potential costs limited to the infrastructure on which it runs or technical support from partners such as OpenInfra or VEXXHOST. The free plan provides full access to all core components for managing computing, storage, and networking, with the ability to deploy the cloud internally or through partners to run OpenStack on public clouds. Paid plans include dedicated support from OpenInfra partners or cloud service providers, as well as consulting services for cloud design, deployment, and management, with integrated backup, disaster recovery, and advanced automation solutions, and the possibility of additional features depending on the partner or provider, making OpenStack a flexible and integrated option for cloud infrastructure management.