OpenStack is a cloud computing software platform. It is primarily deployed as an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solution. The technology consists of a series of interrelated projects that control pools of processing, storage and networking resources throughout a data center. This can be managed through a web-based dashboard, command-line tools or a RESTful API.

OpenStack lets users deploy Virtual Machines and other instances that handle different tasks for managing a cloud environment on the fly. With OpenStack, horizontal scaling is easy – more instances can be spun up in order to serve more users, as needed.

The Progress Kemp Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) OpenStack driver allows the LoadMaster to be deployed in OpenStack.