This document provides information about OpenStack including:
- It was founded in 2010 by Rackspace and NASA and has over 1200 developers from 130 countries contributing to its open source project.
- It has 140 user groups around the world with over 16,500 participants. It is cross-platform and written in Python.
- Rackspace, Red Hat, HP, IBM and Mirantis are the top 5 contributing companies. It has broad industry support with over 18,929 individual members.
- OpenStack is used to provide scalable and flexible infrastructure for both private and public clouds. It consists of several components that provide compute, storage, networking and other capabilities.