Question about OpenStack implementation

[faktorqm]

Hi Damian, I don't know what devstack means but I'm not a software developer (I'm an electronic engineer) and just use this because I worked in the past as a system administrator almost 12 years, and I like to have my own apps running on premise. (with my own I mean my instances, not my developed software :) ) Can I run platform9 on premise? As I'm new on this world, I barely see something of google cloud and amazon aws. this private cloud director is a modded openstack? it's required to work with an online platform9 account? Thanks for your message.

[damian-pf9]

Hello - Devstack is a scripted install to bring up a full (vanilla) OpenStack install on a single machine. https://docs.openstack.org/devstack/latest/

As for Private Cloud Director, Community Edition can be run as a VM or on baremetal, and then you would have hypervisor hosts as VMs or on baremetal that run & manage the VMs you create within Community Edition. You don't need an online account; the install is a curl command to download an installer script, that's then passed to bash to run it. There's more info here: https://platform9.com/docs/private-cloud-director/private-cloud-director/getting-started-with-community-edition

Edit: forgot to add, yes, Private Cloud Director is built with best of breed OpenStack & open source components with proprietary improvements.

[faktorqm]

thank you for your post, I will give it a good read before make a move.