Chapter 1. Getting Started with the Orchestration Service for OpenStack

OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that offers mainly an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution and several service features such as scalability, high availability, and redundancy. It was started as a joint project by NASA and Rackspace in 2010. OpenStack is a combination of several independent components that are integrated with each user using an API. A non-profit corporate organization called OpenStack Foundation was established in the year 2012, which is responsible for maintaining the versioning and development of OpenStack.

The following are the objectives that we will cover in this chapter: