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OpenStack is a free and open-source cloud operating system which gives the user fine-grained control of computing and storage resources. Virtual machines, network and storage settings can be managed through a browser based dashboard or via an API. The cloud platform of the German network for bioinformatics infrastructure de.NBI is entirely based on OpenStack which serves as the basic infrastructure to run the services of the Research Data Commons (RDC). On top of OpenStack, containerized Containerized applications can be deployed , optionally within within OpenStack, which offers the option of either deploying the Docker containers directly on the virtual machines or using a Kubernetes cluster (see below).
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