opencenterOpenCenter

OpenCenter, sometimes stylized as opencenterOpenCenter, is an open-source platform for data center management and cloud orchestration. It provides a centralized way to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management of both physical servers and virtual resources. The project emphasizes extensibility and interoperability through a modular architecture and a published API, enabling integration with hardware drivers, virtualization platforms, and external configuration tools.

The core components typically include a management server, agent software installed on managed nodes, a web-based user interface, and a RESTful API. Agents report inventory, health, and events to the central server, which coordinates workflows and stores state. The system supports discovery of hardware, operating system installation, software provisioning, and ongoing configuration changes via pluggable drivers and plugins. It also provides dashboards, task scheduling, role-based access control, and audit logging.

OpenCenter is used by enterprises and service providers to automate repetitive operations, reduce manual errors, and speed up provisioning of bare-metal and virtual resources. It can integrate with configuration management tools and monitoring systems, and it supports workflows for complex, multi-step deployments.

Development and governance are community-driven, with contributions from individual developers and organizations. The project is released under an open-source license and welcomes new participants and plugins to expand hardware support and cloud integration.