OpenStack in action

OpenStack being the most successful FOSS segment cloud product, the implementations of this are too many to detail. In this section, we will look at some of the most common use cases where you might see OpenStack in action.

Enterprise Private Cloud

Enterprise Private Cloud is one of most common use cases, and the most likely reason why you are reading this book. If you are in the IT organization of any enterprise that chooses to offer private cloud to its different business units, which now demand agility, flexibility, lower time-to-market, and so on, OpenStack is the right choice wherein you can offer an Amazon Web Services style of services while exposing APIs to support cloud native applications.

Some of the enterprises that ...

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