Deltacloud is an
application programming interface (API) developed by
Red Hat and the
Apache Software Foundation that abstracts differences between
cloud computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mu ...
implementations. It was announced on September 3, 2009.
Each Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud existing today provides its own API. The purpose of Deltacloud is to provide one unified REST-based API that can be used to manage services on any cloud. Each particular cloud is controlled through an adapter called a "driver". As of June 2012, drivers exist for the following cloud platforms:
Amazon EC2
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of ...
,
Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform
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It offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) from Fujitsu ...
,
GoGrid,
OpenNebula
OpenNebula is a cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous distributed data center infrastructures. The OpenNebula platform manages a data center's virtual infrastructure to build private, public and hybrid implementations of Infrastru ...
,
Rackspace
Rackspace Technology, Inc. is an American cloud computing company based in Windcrest, Texas, an inner suburb of San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Austin, Texas, as well as in Australia, Canada, United ...
,
RHEV-M,
RimuHosting,
Terremark and
VMware
VMware, Inc. is an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company with headquarters in Palo Alto, California. VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture.
VMware's desktop software ru ...
vCloud vCloud Air was a public cloud computing service built on vSphere from VMware. vCloud Air has three "infrastructure as a service" (IaaS) subscription service types: dedicated cloud, virtual private cloud, and disaster recovery. vCloud Air also offer ...
. Next to the 'classic' front-end, it also offers
CIMI and EC2 front-ends. Deltacloud is used in applications such as
Aeolus
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to prevent the need to implement cloud-specific logic.
On May 17, 2010 Red Hat contributed Deltacloud to the
Apache Incubator
Apache Incubator is the gateway for open-source projects intended to become fully fledged Apache Software Foundation projects.
The Incubator project was created in October 2002 to provide an entry path to the Apache Software Foundation for projec ...
project. It graduated Incubator on October 26, 2011 and became
Apache Software Foundation TLP (Top-Level Project). In July 2013 Fujitsu and VMware used Deltacloud in a demonstration of
CIMI at a Management Developers Conference to manage their cloud infrastructure.
Im May 2013
RedHat announcedthat it was scaling back its sponsorship of the Apache Deltacloud
project, effective immediately.
In July 2015
Deltacloud was moved to the Apache Atticdue to inactivity.
See also
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Aeolus (software)
References
External links
Official websiteMailing list and archive
{{Apache Software Foundation
Red Hat software
Cloud applications
Application programming interfaces