A View of OpenStack: Toward an Open-Source Solution for Cloud

This paper provides an overview on OpenStack for business leaders and researchers non-experts to identify, distill and easily understand the fundamental aspects of how at present, OpenStack is being developed under the control of the OpenStack Foundation, and how this new platform influences the cloud computing market. Throughout this article we will use a statistical approach to present as OpenStack was built. With this we intend to demonstrate statistically how was the evolution of OpenStack and what are the biggest contributors. For statistical analysis we use the Stackalytics tool that allows tracking of commits and lines of code directly from GitHub, and as a result we achieved a systematic review since the birth of the OpenStack project until the present time. This longitudinal study can be used to examining the variations and changes in the characteristics and the different historical releases of OpenStack project (Kilo, Juno, Icehouse and so on) over the years.