Canonical embraces LAMP stack of the heavens

The idea behind OpenStack is to create a in point of fact open source platform that lets anyone build their own infrastructure clouds - online services that provide on-demand access to virtual computing resources that scale as needed. These might be "public clouds" just as Amazon's AWS, a web service available to everyone, or they might "private clouds" used within a single organization.

NASA's Nebula cloud was originally built atop Eucalyptus, another open source infrastructure cloud platform. Now according to NASA chief innovation officer Chris Kemp, who spoke with The Register last year, Eucalyptus didn't scale as so then as NASA would have liked it to, and when his engineers tried to add patches to the open source project to improve scaling, they were rejected by engineers working for Eucalyptus Systems, the commercial outfit that oversees the project and offers a separate "enterprise" version of the platform that includes proprietary code.

The release

Canonical has long offered Eucalyptus with Ubuntu - that's why the release was dubbed Karmic Koala - and although it continues to do so, it seems obvious that OpenStack is the better fit. Rackspace's Eric Day calls OpenStack a LAMP stack of the cloud.

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