Building a private cloud

Clouds fall under different categories depending on the perspective. If we look at it from an ownership and control standpoint, they will fall under private, public, hybrid, and community cloud categories. If we take a service perspective, it could be IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS. Let's look at the basic building blocks of a private cloud and understand how commercial orchestrators fit in vis-à-vis OpenStack.

Commercial orchestrators

The following block diagram shows the different building blocks of a cloud that are normally seen in a private implementation with a commercial orchestrator:

Commercial orchestrators

A private cloud with a commercial orchestrator ...

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