Open source Cloud: cloudstack growth, OpenStack stability

OpenStack is currently the largest and most active Open-source cloud computing project, but in the last quarter, with rival http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13363.html "> The Cloudstack project shows growth momentum, and everyone's interest in OpenStack has begun to stabilise.

This is blog author Shingino (blog Address: http://www.qyjohn.net/) through the monthly monitoring of open source cloud computing project results, Shingino in its blog on OpenStack, Opennebula, The Community activity degree of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus) and Cloudstack project was analyzed and compared. He has written a Java program that automatically downloads all of the Forum and mailing list information from the four project's Web sites and analyzes and extracts the required data from the information.

Eucalyptus and Opennebula are two initial open source cloud computing platforms, which started before 2009. In 2010, OpenStack and Cloudstack also started. At the beginning of 2012, Cloudstack became a project independent of OpenStack.

In the past 18 months, OpenStack has received a lot of support, including many big-name manufacturers, such as Rackspace, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, VMware and Red Hat. At the same time, Cloudstack is largely supported by Jie and other smaller vendors, while Eucalyptus is a privately held company that supports its own Open-source platform. Opennebula is the fourth smaller project.

Given the large amount of marketing resources invested in OpenStack and the Independent foundation that manages the project, the project has gained a significant momentum of growth. But Shingino said the momentum seemed to have stabilised in the last quarter of 2012. "In the past, OpenStack projects had a higher participation rate than other projects," he said. However, in the past six months, the participation rate of cloudstack and eucalyptus is steadily increasing, while the openstack growth rate is gradually decreasing. ”

However, OpenStack and eucalyptus have the broadest community. Chiang OpenStack estimated that 2,500 members of the community were estimated to accumulate throughout the life cycle of the project, while Eucalyptus had 2,250 members, cloudstack a total of no more than 1500, and Opennebula had just over 1000.

But he points out that more recent discussions revolve around Cloudstack. "The active participants in Cloudstack are only slightly less than OpenStack, but the amount of discussion (monthly posts and message numbers) for these two projects is at the same level," he said. This suggests that the Cloudstack forum has more active members than OpenStack active members. ”

These figures seem to rise and fall. Shingino points out that during a major event, or the addition of code, you will change your interest in the project. For example, in the fall of 2012, OpenStack held the largest developer and user meeting in Santiago, a spokesman for the project said recently that the next design summit to discuss the grizzly version of OpenStack code would be held in April 2013. Cloudstack also held its first meeting in the autumn of 2012, triggering a more active discussion than OpenStack.

At the same time, the Eucalyptus spokesperson is committed to updating the code more frequently, as well as continuing to support compatibility with Amazon Web Services (AWS, for short). The company has signed a non-exclusive development agreement with Amazon. Cloudstack supporters are also discussing the need for compatibility with Amazon AWS as the platform's focus.

From the perspective of the discussions and responses, OpenStack and Cloudstack now seem to be growing at the same level, but OpenStack has a larger development base. And Cloudstack's new membership seems to be growing faster than OpenStack.

What does all this mean for the end user? The sustainable development of each project means that they will become more stable and powerful, and user-friendly. For example, in the latest version of Eucalyptus, the main focus is on usability. OpenStack adds important new features, including virtual networks. A healthy community environment means that these projects will continue to evolve in the future. ("Receptacle World", 邹铮 compiled)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)