TryStack Allows Developers and Users to Easily Test Software on OpenStack™ Clouds
2012年2月16日 - 11:30PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Today several OpenStack™ community members announced their
collaboration to build TryStack, a free sandbox for those
interested in exploring and testing OpenStack, the open source
cloud operating system. Initially driven by OpenStack community
members Dell™, HP, NTT® and Rackspace® Hosting, TryStack is ideal
for developers, end users and the technology ecosystem interested
in testing software that communicates over OpenStack APIs without
having to set up and administer their own deployment.
TryStack users will be able to launch OpenStack Compute
instances that last up to 24 hours, at which point resources for
the instances are reclaimed and made available to other TryStack
users. Each registered user will receive a set amount of Stack
Dollars they can use to “lease” instances within that time
period.
TryStack is intended to provide users the ability to launch
instances in one of several TryStack zones, representing different
OpenStack reference architectures and geographical locations. The
first zone available now has 156 cores, 1040GB memory and 59.1 TB
of disk storage running the latest OpenStack release (code-name
Diablo), Dell™ PowerEdge C6100 and C6105 servers and libvirt/KVM.
Individual contributors from Dell, HP Cloud Services, NTT and
Rackspace Cloud Builders helped deploy, test and administer
TryStack for community use.
The project also serves as a unique place for the OpenStack
development community to proactively identify any problems with
packaging and deployment. Additionally, end users can gain
experience administering an OpenStack cloud on a variety of
heterogeneous hypervisors and network topologies, as well as
document differences in behavior, functionality and performance
between various reference architectures.
To learn more about TryStack and get involved:
- Visit www.TryStack.org to become a
registered user, and follow @TryStack on Twitter
- Attend a webinar, Thursday, February 23
to see a demo of TryStack
- Register for an OpenStack San Francisco
Meetup about TryStack, Tuesday, March 6, and look for more to
come
Supporting Quotes
“Dell has been a vocal advocate for and an active participant in
OpenStack since its announcement, and we’re excited to play a key
role in the TryStack project,” said John Igoe, Dell executive
director of cloud and big data solutions. “We’re proud to have been
the first member to take a supported OpenStack solution to market,
and the TryStack project represents a tremendous opportunity to
accelerate innovation in the community.”
“TryStack is a good place for operators and the OpenDevOps
Community. While the open source community is a collaboration of
coding, the OpenDevOps Community is a collaboration of operators.
We can share know-how for effective operations, experiences and
troubleshooting. We are happy to see cloud administrators using
TryStack,” said Nachi Ueno, researcher at NTT Information Sharing
Platform Laboratories.
"As an OpenStack contributor, I am happy to see TryStack
available for those looking for a starting point to explore
OpenStack's ecosystem of distributions and products," said Jesse
Andrews, director of development for Rackspace Cloud Builders.
"TryStack provides a simple way to get some hands-on experience
with OpenStack."
“TryStack is intended to enable collaboration between
individuals and companies dedicated to developing the latest open
source cloud computing technologies,” said Jay Pipes, director,
Open Source Cloud Development at HP and OpenStack Image Service
project technical lead. “This is intended to provide OpenStack
users with a stable, easy solution to test applications and the
community will also be stronger for this effort.”
About OpenStack™
OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers building an
open source cloud computing platform that any organization can use
to build private or public clouds. Established to drive industry
standards, end cloud lock-in and speed cloud adoption by creating a
common, open platform for both public and private clouds, OpenStack
currently has the support of nearly 150 industry leading companies
and more than 2,300 project participants. The open source cloud
operating system currently consists of five core components, which
together manage pools of compute, storage and networking resources.
For more information and to join the community,
visit www.OpenStack.org