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10 Open Source Tools for Cloud Infrastructure Management 10 OPEN SOURCE TOOLS FOR CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT Here is a list of ten tools which help you build, manage and monitor networks of virtual machines, private or hybrid clouds, tweak and track cloud services and much more… - Anuj Sharma 1. vOneCloud 1.6 6. openQrM It is an OpenNebula openQRM software manages a distribution optimized data center’s infrastructure to to work on existing VMware vCenter deployments. It build private, public and hybrid deploys an enterprise-ready OpenNebula cloud just IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) clouds. This enterprise- in a few minutes where the infrastructure is managed class tool combines data center management system by already familiar VMware tools, such as vSphere and administration and IaaS provisioning into a single tool. vCenter Operations Manager. 7. OpenShift 2. CloudStack OpenShift’s helps you to Apache CloudStack is designed to make your job easier by deploy and manage large networks of taking care of all the messy virtual machines. This Apache Project IT aspects of app development and allows you to focus on offers a turnkey Infrastructure as a your job by Coding your Application and satisfying your Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. It’s used both customers. by public cloud computing vendors and by organizations running their own private clouds. 8. Cloud Foundry Cloud Foundry is used to deploy 3. Eucalyptus your applications on a variety of Eucalyptus allows infrastructures, including Amazon organizations to Web Services, OpenStack, and easily migrate vSphere. It supports Java, Ruby, and apps and data Node applications out of the box. to build private or hybrid cloud environments that are compatible with Amazon Web Services. 9. Docker Docker provides 4. Synnefo a highly reliable, Synnefo is a complete cloud low-cost way to quickly build, ship, and run distributed infrastructure stack that applications at scale. It gives developers the freedom to provides Network, Image, define environments and create apps faster and easier Volume and Storage service. It manages Google Ganetti, and flexibility for IT ops to quickly respond to change. OpenStack, and KVM. 10. Salt Stack 5. FOSS-Cloud SaltStack software is easy The FOSS-Cloud is a Software enough to get running that enables you to create your in seconds, scalable own Private or Public Cloud. It enough to manage tens is an integrated infrastructure to provide cloud-Services, of thousands of servers, and fast enough to control Windows or Linux based SaaS. FOSS-Cloud covers all of and communicate with them in milliseconds. SaltStack the aspects of an Open Source IT environment.This multi- delivers a dynamic infrastructure communication bus faced cloud computing solution includes virtualization, used for remote execution, configuration management cloud desktop, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities. and much more. pcquest.com twitter.com/pcquest facebook.com/pcquest linkd.in/pcquest [email protected] MARCH 2016 PCQUEST 39.
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