On Apr 3, 2016, at 4:09 AM, profox <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is it possible to run cloud on a local server? Or is it just a web service?

My job is writing cloud software; specifically, the 'Nova' compute portion of 
OpenStack. Yes, you can run cloud, including OpenStack, locally, as I do it all 
the time to test things. In fact, I have a compute node in an IBM private cloud 
on which I run an OpenStack deployment. So it's a cloud running on a node in 
another cloud. Inception, huh? BTW, anyone can deploy an OpenStack cloud by 
running Devstack: http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/ . Bear in mind 
that this is for development purposes only; don't try to run your business on 
devstack!

Virtualization is just one part of the cloud. The others are on-demand 
resources, such as compute, network, and storage, as well as the ability to 
simply pay for what you use. Need to crunch some data? Fire up several compute 
nodes with the requisite software, run the analysis, then delete those nodes.

So perhaps if you explain a little more about what part of the cloud you need, 
I can give you a more targeted answer.

-- Ed Leafe







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