OpenStack
is a software and hypervisor manager which helps us to create, manage, and remove virtual machines on single or multiple nodes.
By node I mean a live computer or server that has an static IP address. OpenStack
helps us to create virtual machines
on bare metal hardware too.
In order to provide these services, OpenStack
uses various components to create virtual cpus, virtual network, virtual volumes,
and virtual routers. It uses KVM
. In this presentation we are going to talk about different components of OpenStack
and
see how they work and integrate with each other. After that we are going to install OpenStack
on our local machine in order to
manage some virtual machines.