A fledgling open source project at Intel is wiping the slate clean in managing workloads in VMs, in containers, and on bare metal alike. The CIAO Project — “CIAO” is short for “Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator” — has been described in a Register article as what might result if OpenStack were redone from scratch.
CIAO is split into three major components: controller, scheduler, and launcher. The controller provides all the top-level setting and policy enforcement around workloads, while the scheduler places workloads on available nodes.
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