CoreOS and OpenStack
Is CoreOS yet another orchestration framework like OpenStack/CloudStack? No, it is not. CoreOS is not a standalone orchestration framework like OpenStack/CloudStack. In most server orchestration frameworks, the framework sits external to the managed cloud. But in CoreOS, the orchestration framework sits along with the existing business solution.
OpenStack is one of the most widely used cloud computing software platforms to provide IaaS. OpenStack is used for orchestrating the compute, storage, and network entities of the cloud, whereas CoreOS is used for service orchestration. Once the compute, storage, or network entities are instantiated, OpenStack doesn't have any role in instantiating services inside these VMs.
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