An Introduction to OpenStack and OpenStack Certification
August 30, 2016
Grazed from GoCertify. Author: Tim Warner.
It’s difficult to browse information technology (IT) industry news without seeing reference after reference to OpenStack. The buzz is that OpenStack is a free, fully open platform for building private clouds. What is OpenStack? How does it work? What OpenStack certifications may be available?
Understanding OpenStack
OpenStack is indeed free and open-source software (FOSS) written predominantly in Python; this means that you can inspect the source code and even make contributions if you’re so inclined. Specifically, OpenStack is a cloud operating system that supports infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), primarily virtual machine, workloads. Hallmarks of cloud computing solutions are as follows:…
Scalability/elasticity. In a cloud architecture, compute, storage, and network resources are pooled to allow services to scale up and down as demand requires…
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