3.1 OpenStack Services Supported

The supported OpenStack services included in this release of Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux are listed in the following table:

Table 3.1 Supported OpenStack Services

Service

Description

Nova

Compute service. Controls the creation, placement, and life cycle of virtual machines.

Neutron

Network service. Controls the network creation, and integration of network services.

Swift

Object storage service.

Cinder

Block storage service. Enables users to connect storage devices to the virtual machines.

Keystone

Identity service. Provides authentication and authorization services for users and OpenStack services.

Glance

Image service. Controls the images, their permissions and attributes.

Horizon

Dashboard. Provides a browser-based UI to perform common OpenStack tasks.

Heat

Orchestration service. Provides a method to deploy an OpenStack infrastructure using templates. Can also auto-scale some infrastructure elements.

Murano

Application catalog service. Provides a method to deploy cloud applications from a catalog. Deployment is performed using Heat.

Ceilometer

Telemetry service. Collects, normalizes and transforms data produced by OpenStack services for various telemetry use cases, such as customer billing, resource tracking, metering, and alarming.