Using OpenStack for networking
In contrast to OpenFlow, OpenStack has been busy and promising. It started in 2010 after a joint project between NASA and Rackspace. Rackspace wanted to rewrite the infrastructure code running its cloud servers and at the same time, Anso Labs (contracting for NASA) had published beta code for Nova, a Python-based cloud computing fabric controller.
By 2012, the OpenStack Foundation was established to promote OpenStack software to the cloud community. By 2018, more than 500 companies had joined the OpenStack Foundation. By the end of 2020, the foundation announced that would change its name starting in 2021 to the Open Infrastructure Foundation. The reason is that the foundation started to add other projects to OpenStack, and therefore the name would not reflect their goals.
OpenStack tracks its versions with different names; the first version in 2010 was called Austin, which included two components (Nova and Swift). By 2015, the new version of OpenStack...
