Zun is an OpenStack service started in the Mitaka cycle developed by the members of the Magnum team. A decision was made at the OpenStack Austin Summit in 2016 to create a new project to allow for the management of containers and let the Magnum Container Infrastructure Management service manage only the infrastructure for running containers. The result was the Zun project.
Zun is a container management service for OpenStack that provides APIs to manage containers abstracted by different technologies at the backend. Zun supports Docker as the container runtime tool. Today, Zun integrates with many OpenStack services such as Neutron for networking, Glance for managing container images, and Cinder for providing volume to the containers.
Zun has various add-ons over Docker, which makes it a powerful solution for container management. Here is a list of some of the...
