OpenStack has grown from a simple open source project to a major community-based initiative including thousands of contributors in more than a hundred countries.As OpenStack clouds begin to scale and the basic infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) use case evolves, developers have an opportunity to look beyond the initial challenges of setting up virtual machines, configuring storage devices, and orchestrating network connectivity on demand.Future IaaS environments need to focus on deployment and delivery of applications and services with speed, agility, flexibility, security, and scale rather than just orchestration of infrastructure components. For such solutions, a declarative policy engine can be a critical component.

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