Comparative analysis of openstack and Cloudstack
Hello all!!! I have been exploring the cloudstack cloud platform while comparing it with the openstack cloud platform. I am a little skeptical about which solution to use as our cloud platform between cloudstack and OpenStack. Following are the difficulties I am facing which comparing these two solutions. 1.) OpenStack has HEAT as the component for orchestration of application VM's deployed and the cloud setup services as well. Is there any orchestration feature in cloudstack which provides an autscaling feature for the application deployed in it? 2.) OpenStack has TROVE for DBaaS which takes care of the entire lifecycle of the database service which includes deployment, configuration, replication, failover, backup, patching, restores. Is there any similar service in cloudstack for providing DBaaS? 3.) Cloudstack documentation says that it has orchestration feature for its applications, but couldn't find any details regarding the same. Also, for big data Hadoop clusters provisioning, SAHARA component is used in OpenStack. What does this sahara feature provides and is it useful for big data applications? This is feature is not there in cloudstack. What is the importance of serverless functionality feature "Qinling" in openstack which is not there in cloudstack Are there any points of Openstack which completely outshines itself from cloudstack? Thankyou Dhairyasheel Ghadge
Dhairyasheel Ghadge wrote:
[...] Are there any points of Openstack which completely outshines itself from cloudstack?
It's not really our role to compare solutions or tell one is better than the other. I think one key difference as you noticed is that CloudStack focuses on key IaaS functionality (VMs as a service, with accompanying networking and storage), while OpenStack aims at being a more complete cloud framework, and therefore includes advanced services like object storage (Swift), Kubernetes clusters provisioning (Magnum), running containers / functions... As a result OpenStack is a larger project with more features, but also is arguably more complex. Hope this helps, -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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Dhairyasheel Ghadge
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Thierry Carrez