apache/cloudstack
Cloudstack
CloudStack is an infrastructure-as-a-service orchestration engine designed to automate the deployment and lifecycle of computing, storage, and networking resources within a software-defined data center. It serves as a management layer for provisioning private clouds and managing the delivery of virtual machines and persistent storage across virtualized physical infrastructure.
The platform features a multi-hypervisor orchestrator that utilizes a hypervisor-agnostic abstraction layer to control diverse virtualization technologies through a unified set of standardized API calls. It further provides multi-site management capabilities to coordinate virtualized resources across multiple geographic locations, ensuring redundancy and high availability.
The system organizes physical hardware into a hierarchical topology of zones, pods, and clusters to scale resource allocation. Its capability surface includes virtual network administration via VLAN allocation and firewall integration, as well as storage provisioning for persistent data volumes and template-based instance deployment.
Installation is handled through automated processes that bootstrap the management server and database to establish the cloud environment.
Features
- Private Cloud Orchestration - Builds and manages a private cloud environment to automate the delivery of virtual machines and computing resources.
- Virtual Machine Deployment - Automates the delivery and lifecycle management of virtual machines across physical hosts.
- Persistent Storage Provisioning - Allocates and manages persistent storage volumes and templates for virtual instances.
- Storage Architectures - Architects storage systems that provide persistent data volumes for virtualized workloads.
- Virtual Machine Provisioning - Deploys and manages the lifecycle of virtual machines and persistent storage volumes across a distributed cluster.
- Cross-Hypervisor Orchestration - Controls different virtualization technologies from a single management layer to maintain a unified infrastructure.
- Hierarchical Infrastructure Layouts - Organizes physical infrastructure into nested logical layers to manage resource allocation and geographic scaling.
- IaaS Orchestration Engines - Provides a platform for provisioning and managing infrastructure as a service across virtualized compute, storage, and networking resources.
- Infrastructure Topology Configurations - Implements a hierarchical layout of zones, pods, and clusters to scale physical resource allocation across environments.
- Multi-Site Cloud Deployments - Manages virtualized infrastructure across multiple geographic locations to ensure system redundancy and high availability.
- Multi-Site Cloud Management - Coordinates virtualized resources across multiple geographic locations to ensure redundancy and high availability.
- Multi-Site Infrastructure Coordination - Syncs configuration and metadata across disparate physical sites to provide failover and redundancy for critical cloud services.
- Software-Defined Data Centers - Automates the deployment and lifecycle of computing resources across a virtualized physical infrastructure.
- Virtualization Management - Orchestrates compute, storage, and networking resources through a unified management layer across multiple hypervisors.
- Network Infrastructure and Configuration - Provides tools for deploying and maintaining both physical and logical network infrastructure components.
- Network Routing - Routes public and guest traffic across the infrastructure using VLAN allocation and firewall integration.
- Network Topology Provisioning - Sets up physical and guest networks, including VLAN allocation and hardware firewalls, to support scale requirements.
- Virtualization Management - Manages the partitioning and deployment of virtual machine hosts across different hypervisor types.
- Abstraction Layers - Provides a unified management layer that translates standardized API calls into commands for various virtualization platforms.
- Virtual Network Management - Defines and configures virtual networks with VLAN allocation and traffic management for virtual machine guests.
- Hypervisor Backend Integrations - Interfaces with multiple different native hypervisors to unify the management of diverse compute environments.
- Distributed Storage Configurations - Configures storage backends and networking to provide persistent data access across virtualized environments.
- Relational Database Persistence - Stores infrastructure configurations and resource mappings in a relational database to ensure consistency across the cluster.
- Relational State Management - Stores infrastructure configuration and resource mapping in a relational database to ensure consistent state across the cluster.
- Orchestration State Management - Coordinates all cloud operations via a centralized orchestrator that maintains state and manages distributed host agents.
- Multi-Site Infrastructure Deployment - Coordinates infrastructure across multiple physical locations and redundant setups to ensure high availability and scalability.
- Hierarchical Resource Coordination - Organizes physical hardware into nested zones, pods, and clusters to manage resource allocation and geographic scaling.
- VM Template Cloning - Rapidly deploys virtual machines by cloning pre-configured disk images from a central storage repository.
- VLAN Segmentations - Segregates guest and public traffic by mapping virtual network requests to specific physical VLAN tags.
- Virtualization Networking - Sets up guest networks and routes traffic using VLANs and firewalls to isolate and connect cloud resources.
- Template-Based Cloning - Clones pre-configured disk images from a central storage repository to rapidly deploy new virtual machines.
- Deployment Automation - Software for creating and managing cloud infrastructure.
