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| # What is Apache CloudStack? |
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| Apache CloudStack is a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). The project develops open source software for deploying public and private Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. |
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| CloudStack provides an open and flexible cloud orchestration platform to deliver reliable and scalable private and public clouds. What's that *mean*, exactly? |
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| # Features and Functionality |
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| Apache CloudStack is a Java-based project that provides a management server and agents (if needed) for hypervisor hosts so that you can run an IaaS cloud. Some, but not all, of the features and functionality provided by CloudStack: |
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| - Works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere |
| - Provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud |
| - Provides a native [API](/docs/api/) |
| - May provide an Amazon S3/EC2 compatible API (optional) |
| - Manages storage for instances running on the hypervisors (primary storage) as well as templates, snapshots, and ISO images (secondary storage) |
| - Orchestrates network services from the data link layer (L2) to some application layer (L7) services, such as DHCP, NAT, firewall, VPN, and so on |
| - Accounting of network, compute, and storage resources |
| - Multi-tenancy/account separation |
| - User management |
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| In short, organizations can use Apache CloudStack to deploy a full-featured public or private IaaS cloud. |
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| # People of Apache CloudStack |
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| Apache projects are managed by a [Project Management Committee](http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#what-is-a-pmc) (PMC), and much of the work is done by the project's [committers](http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html). Note that committer status is *not* limited to developers, but is conferred to individuals who have made sustained contributions of high quality, and have shown a committment to mentoring other contributors and following [The Apache Way](http://theapacheway.com). |
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| The current Vice President of Apache CloudStack and chair of the PMC is Sebastien Goasguen, a full list of PMC members and contributors is available on the page *[Who We Are](/who.html)*. |
