The stoney cloud is an Open Source Cloud Management solution with service providers as the target audience.
Characteristics
- Turnkey solution to build public and private clouds.
- Runs unmodified Windows and Linux servers as well as desktops on commodity hardware.
- Persistent and non-persistent virtual machines.
- User friendly web interface to manage every aspect of your cloud.
- Backups configurable via web interface.
- Clear separation between the infrastructure and application and service layer.
- Integration and provisioning of the Zabbix Monitoring solution.
- Integration and provisioning of the Puppet Configuration Management solution.
- Multi-tenant capable (work in progress, see the Category:Selfcare Selfcare category for the current state of the development).
Overview
The following image gives an overview of the life cycle of a virtual machine, starting with the ISO file and ending with a persistent or non-persistent virtual machine.