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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to CloudStack

OpenStack Amazon EC2 Xen Orchestra oVirt OpenNebula LXC Morpheus QEMU Amazon ECS Xen

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to CloudStack are OpenStack, Amazon EC2, and Xen Orchestra. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. OpenStack software controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, managed through a dashboard or via the OpenStack API.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 2 social mentions

  2. Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #VPS 63 social mentions

  3. A complete web UI for controlling a XenServer or Xen infrastructure.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 3 social mentions

  4. 4
    oVirt is a virtualization management application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization Platform #Virtual Machine Management #Cloud Computing 3 social mentions

  5. OpenNebula is an Open Source Cloud & Edge Computing Platform to build & manage Enterprise Clouds. OpenNebula provides unified management of IT infrastructure, avoiding vendor lock-in & reducing complexity, resource consumption, & operational costs 🚀
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $2500.0 / Annually ( Unlimited CPUs, Cores, VMs. Plus €200 ($250) per managed node )

    #Cloud Computing #Virtualization Platform #IT Automation 7 social mentions

  6. 6

    LXC

    LXC by Linuxcontainers.org is a set of tools, templates, library and language bindings. It's pretty low level, very flexible and covers just about every containment feature supported by the upstream kernel.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 33 social mentions

  7. Morpheus is integration software designed to help major cloud infrastructure work in harmony. For example, if a company has assets on both Google's and Amazon's cloud services, Morpheus helps bridge the gap to improve productivity.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #DevOps Tools 2 social mentions

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    QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted hypervisor that...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 3 social mentions

  9. Amazon EC2 Container Service is a highly scalable, high-performance​ container management service that supports Docker containers.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #Containers As A Service #Cloud Computing 46 social mentions

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    Xen

    Xen Project: Open Source Hypervisor, High Performance Clouds, Free Software, Open Source Virtualization, Open Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Desktop Virtualization, Mobile Virtualization, Embedded Virtualization.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Virtualization #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management 10 social mentions

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    The Kubernetes Package Manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #DevOps Tools #Containers As A Service 134 social mentions

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    A fully open source and community backed alternative, with all current commercial features enabled...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Virtual Machine Management #Virtualization Platform 37 social mentions

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