OpenStack cloud capabilities
The following capabilities are available to users of the
MCP-based OpenStack clouds:
- Upload and manage virtual machine disk images to object storage
using the OpenStack Image (Glance) API.
- Assign storage, network, and other infrastructural resources to
the virtual machines upfront and at the runtime using the OpenStack
Networking (Neutron) API.
- Boot and run virtual machines on a KVM hypervisor under the OpenStack
management from the uploaded images, or from block storage
through the OpenStack Compute (Nova) API.
- Migrate virtual machines between hypervisors and their groups,
with or without interruption of the workload running on the
virtual machine, depending on availability of a shared storage
for disk images. This ability is provided by the Compute API.
- Connect remote or local block storage resources to the virtual
machines using the OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder) API.
- Configure virtual load balancers through the OpenStack
Load Balancing-as-a-Service (Octavia) API.
- Configure DNS names for their virtual server instances through the
DNS-as-a-Service (Designate) API.
- Access all API endpoints of the OpenStack cloud over connections
secured by SSL/TLS protocols.