OpenStack is an open source cloud computing platform that consists of a series of related projects that control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface. It is developed as an open source project by an international community of developers and corporate sponsors and supports both private and public cloud deployments. Major components include compute (Nova), object storage (Swift), image service (Glance), networking (Quantum), and an identity service (Keystone).