Documentation

Core Services

• DashboardHorizon

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  Provides a web-based self-service portal to interact with underlying OpenStack services, such as launching an instance, assigning IP addresses and configuring access controls.

• ComputeNova

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  Manages the lifecycle of compute flavors (virtual hardware templates) and instances in your Fuga Cloud OpenStack environment. Responsibilities include spawning, scheduling and decommissioning of machines on demand. Floating IP addresses for instances are also provisioned through Nova.

• NetworkingNeutron

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  Enables network connectivity and load balancing as a service for other OpenStack services, such as OpenStack Compute. Provides an API for users to define internal and external networks.

Storage

• Object StorageSwift

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  Stores and retrieves arbitrary unstructured data objects via a RESTful, HTTP based API. It is highly fault tolerant with its data replication and scale out architecture. Swift also stores back-ups of images and volumes.

• Block StorageCinder

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  Provides persistent block storage to running instances, either on SSD or standard disks. It allows you to create and centrally manage storage devices known as Cinder volumes.

More on the available OpenStack storage types

Shared and advanced services

• Identity Keystone

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  Provides an authentication and authorization service for other OpenStack services, as well as a catalog of endpoints for all OpenStack services.

• Image Service Glance

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  Stores and retrieves virtual machine disk images with bootable operating systems installed on them. OpenStack Compute uses these during instance provisioning.

• TelemetryCeilometer

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  Monitors and meters the OpenStack cloud for billing, benchmarking, scalability, and statistical purposes.

• Orchestration Heat

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  Allows you to configure automated provisioning of your instances. This way you can launch multiple instances or complete clusters and network configurations based on templates.

• Horizon Dashboard

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  OpenStack’s user-friendly webinterface is called Horizon. You can use it to create your servers (instances), storage and networks. Besides these basic functionality, it also has many more features to manage platforms and configurations.

  More on Getting started with OpenStack

• Command Line Interface

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  You can use the native OpenStack Command-Line Interface (CLI) tools to interact with your Fuga Cloud environment. For each API, there is a separate CLI tool with its own set of commands.

  Read our tutorial on Getting started with the Fuga CLI

• Your RESTful application

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  Use the OpenStack APIs and extensions to launch server instances, create images, assign metadata to instances and images. You can also create containers and objects and complete other actions in your OpenStack cloud.

Services currently under development

We’re continuously testing and implementing more OpenStack projects into the Fuga Cloud platform.
The following services are currently under development and evaluation:

Check our stories in our labs

• Database as a Service Trove

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  Trove provides a scalable and reliable Cloud Database as a Service provisioning functionality, for both relational and non-relational database engines.

• Big Data ClustersSahara

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  The Sahara project provides users with simple means to provision data processing frameworks (such as Hadoop, Spark and Storm) on OpenStack.

• DNS as a Service Designate

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  Designate provides a multi-tenant DNS as a Service functionality for OpenStack with a RESTful API for domain & record management.

• Container ServicesMagnum

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  Magnum is an OpenStack project that makes container orchestration engines such as Docker and Kubernetes available as first class resources in OpenStack.

• Bare Metal ProvisioningIronic

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  Ironic is an integrated OpenStack program, which aims to provision bare metal machines instead of virtual machines through an API and a set of plugins.