Introduction to OpenStack with MicroStack

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Ubuntu OpenStack Landing Page

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Ubuntu OpenStack

Ubuntu OpenStack is the most trusted and economical way to build your private OpenStack cloud. Supported or fully managed by Canonical.

For a larger number of nodes such as would be found in a typical datacenter, other distributions such as Charmed OpenStack (also offered by Canonical) or Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOP) may be more suitable, many of which are bundled with commercial support.

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Lubuntu Landing Page

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Lubuntu

Lubuntu is a fast and lightweight operating system with a clean and easy-to-use user interface. The core of the system is based on Linux and Ubuntu. Lubuntu uses the minimal desktop LXDE, and a selection of light applications.

The official OpenStack website describes the project as "a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed and provisioned through APIs with common authentication mechanisms". Simply put, it is an open source platform designed to function as a private (or public) cloud. Typically, OpenStack would be deployed on a fleet of production-grade servers in a datacenter (or datacenters), though in this article we'll see how we can set up our own single-node micro cloud with MicroStack, a beta offering (at the time of writing) by Canonical, the company behind one of the most successful Linux distributions ever - Ubuntu.

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