ZStack is IaaS (infrastructure as a service) software aiming to automate datacenters, managing resources of compute, storage, and networking all by APIs. Users can setup ZStack environments in a download-and-run manner, spending 5 minutes building a POC environment all on a single Linux machine, or 30 minutes building a multi-node production environment that can scale to hundreds of thousands of physical servers.
ZStack provides the capability of managing everything in a datacenter by APIs, fulfilling the goal of software-defined datacenter. Users control their clouds using either web UI or command line tool both of which interact with ZStack management nodes; NO scattered configurations, dependent software installation, services HA, and thirdparty monitoring are needed, all of them are taken care of by ZStack itself, which provides a great simplicity for stable long-term operation.
ZStack is designed to tackle two problems — complexity and stability — that users building clouds based on open source IaaS software have been suffered for a long time.
In terms of complexity, ZStack sticks to the design principles of APIs managing everything, full automation, self-managed services, no hardware lockin, and user-friendly query APIs, providing a software easy to setup and long-term operation.
In terms of stability, ZStack was born with a plugin system that adding or removing features will not impact existing codes, a workflow engine that can rollback completed changes on error, a cascade framework that can spread an operation from a resource to dependent resources, and three rigorous automated testing systems that guard every single feature, solving the stability issue in architectural designs.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/zstackio/zstack
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Developer: Shanghai Yunzhou Information and Technology Ltd
License: Apache License 2.0
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