Welcome to OpenStack Documentation

What is OpenStack? OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls 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.


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Documentation for Ussuri (May 2020)

The Ussuri release of OpenStack is no longer supported by the community. For more information about the release, refer to the releases web site .

Minimal documentation is still published here to assist users running this version. For additional documentation, please refer to a newer release. The most recently released version is 2024.2 and the version in development is 2025.1 .

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