COVER STORY 10 Open Source Tools for Cloud Infrastructure and Management Cloud vendors provide new tools to help enterprises build and manage cloud services. You can as well do it for free using these open source tools – Raj Kumar Maurya loud is not a new term and almost all Linux based SaaS. FOSS-Cloud covers all of the aspects enterprises use it in some way but the of an Open Source IT environment.This multi-faced bottleneck is to manage the huge Cloud solution includes virtualization, cloud CInfrastructure. There are many Cloud vendors desktop, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities. those continuously provides new tools to help enterprise IT to build, buy, manage, monitor, tweak and track cloud 6. openQRM services. But their fees might prick the companies budget openQRM software manages a ’s infrastructure pocket. So, here are some open source tools which help to build private, public and hybrid IaaS (Infrastructure you to build, manage and monitor networks of virtual ) clouds. This enterprise-class tool combines machines, private or hybrid clouds, tweak and track cloud data center management system administration and IaaS services and much more… provisioning into a single tool.

1. OpenStack 7. OpenShift OpenStack software allows data centers to pool the OpenShift’s helps you to make your job easier by taking compute, storage, and networking resources and manage care of all the messy IT aspects of app development them through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API. and allows you to focus on your job by Coding your Application and satisfying your customers. 2. CloudStack Apache CloudStack is designed to deploy and manage 8. large networks of virtual machines. This Apache Project Cloud Foundry is used to deploy your applications on a offers a turnkey Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud variety of infrastructures, including , computing platform. It’s used both by public cloud OpenStack, and vSphere. It supports Java, Ruby, and Node computing vendors and by organizations running their applications out of the . own private clouds. 9. Docker 3. Docker provides a highly reliable, low-cost way to quickly Eucalyptus allows organizations to easily migrate apps build, ship, and run distributed applications at scale. It and data to build private or hybrid cloud environments gives developers the freedom to define environments and that are compatible with Amazon Web Services. create apps faster and easier and flexibility for IT ops to quickly respond to change. 4. Synnefo Synnefo is a complete cloud infrastructure stack that 10. Salt Stack provides Network, Image, Volume, and Storage service. It SaltStack software is easy enough to get running manages Ganetti, OpenStack, and KVM. in seconds, scalable enough to manage tens of thousands of servers, and fast enough to control and 5. FOSS-Cloud communicate with them in milliseconds. SaltStack The FOSS-Cloud is a Software that enables you to create delivers a dynamic infrastructure communication bus your own Private or Public Cloud. It is an integrated used for remote execution, configuration management infrastructure to provide cloud-Services, Windows or and much more.

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