OpenStack, the world's most widely deployed open-source cloud software, boasts proven production at scale with thousands of deployments. It consists of software components that offer common services for cloud infrastructure. Developed and maintained by a collaborative community, OpenStack facilitates cloud infrastructure for virtual machines, bare metal, and containers.
Its control over extensive pools of compute, storage, and networking resources, managed through APIs or a dashboard, goes beyond standard infrastructure-as-a-service functionalities. Additional components provide orchestration, fault management, and service management, ensuring high availability for user applications.