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Openstackclient
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OpenStack Networking integration for containers

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Computable object storage

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Deploys OpenStack in containers using Ansible

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Ansible playbooks to deploy OpenStack

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Optimization Service

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Official Python SDK for OpenStack APIs

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Puppet modules to deploy OpenStack

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Production-ready OpenStack containers

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NFV Orchestration

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Ironic
Bare Metal Provisioning Service

Cyborg
Lifecycle management of accelerators

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Cloudkitty
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Operations processes automation

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Object store

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Block Storage

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Shared filesystems

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Benchmarking tool

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The OpenStack Integration Test Suite

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Load balancer

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Keystone
Identity service

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Image service

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Key management

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Heat
Orchestration

Zaqar
Messaging Service

Aodh
Alarming Service

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Workflow service

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Resource reservation service

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Trove
Database as a Service

Magnum
Container Orchestration Engine Provisioning

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Masakari
Instances High Availability Service

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