Components of OpenStack
OpenStack is a very big platform that has many small components, assuring the full functionality of its services. Most of those components are made by the open source community to help meet the needs of its users. For this section, we are going to talk about the OpenStack community components as part of its core. What characterizes those components are that they are maintained by the OpenStack community, to be presented as part of the solution.
These components are described as follows:
Horizon: This is the component responsible of setting up the OpenStack dashboard. It is from where the OpenStack administrator manages the infrastructure. It is the only graphical interface OpenStack has, so far. Horizon provides a look into what is happening in the cloud infrastructure and gives to the system administrators some functionality to manage it. On the other hand, the dashboard does not support developer's access. There is always...
