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Red Hat Makes Supported OpenStack Release
judgecorp writes "The OpenStack project could be the 'Linux of the cloud', according to Red Hat, which just announced a fully supported distribution of the open source software. The plan seems to be to offer it as a competitor to VMware's vSphere. From the article: 'The open source firm has been a member and supporter of OpenStack for some time, but with this announcement, its OpenStack distribution graduates from a “community release” similar to its Fedora Linux distribution, to a fully supported offering, comparable to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OS. The company wants to position OpenStack as a future cloud platform analogous to Linux, and is building it into a whole set of announcements and programs.'"
I like redhat, (Centos), I just think it's only a matter of time before they abandon yet another project. Like dumping the desktop. Guess I'm just old fashioned.
Yep, nothing to see here. Just another buzzword platform.
I have no fucking idea what this is or means. So I guess I don't care?
This is why I keep coming back to slashdot year after year after year. The level of insight in the comments has been more consistent than any other site I've been to!
I now associated with "rental fee" No more ownership.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
OpenStack is mostly crap from what I can tell. The private cloud we have at work is better. Of course, that doesn't stop the suits from asking why we aren't using it.
Swift in particular is a joke. Another hashing ring. Super, like the world didn't have enough of those already.
Business interest in cloud computing seems to be mostly about the pay-as-you-go model, and that implies third party hosting like AWS. But once you've turned over your data center to a third party, seems that you wouldn't care that much about the cloud infrastructure, you just care about the virtual machine images and their performance characteristics, along with the SLAs, backup/restore and other practical matters. So the API wars stuff should be chiefly of interest to the limit population of companies hosting public clouds.
Cannonical (the makers of Ubuntu) already does this - full support from the OS on up through the entire stack, and includes their own tools (juju, etc.) in addition to the OpenStack stuff.
Have been doing it for awhile, too.
Plus, they're supporting VMWare as a VM hypervisor, and integration with VMWare for their various layered tools, too.
So, I think this is just RedHat playing catchup.
Note: I just had a Cannonical presentation today, but I don't work for them.
but I don't work for them.
Riiiight. *wink*
No, not even close.
Have they used vSphere/ESXi? Other than both of them do something with Virtual Machines, I'm fairly certain they've never compared the two things.
OpenStack is your typical big open source mess that requires more than some assembly of parts that were clearly designed for Amazon scale sites rather than what most of the world would want.
VMware's products are semi-polished tools that a semi-competent Windows admin can fumble their way through and work with pretty GUIs to make it all work without much effort.
VMware is like normal furniture and OpenStack is like Ikea ... except you also have to cut most of the parts out yourself as well with OpenStack.
OpenStack is about 9 billion times more complicated than it should be for limited amount of functionality it actually provides overall.
Persistent Volume manager for Kubernetes - https://github.com/dwimsey/openshift-pvmanager
So, to the Red Hat employees reading this: thank you! Red Hat does great work for the world. We as a community also tend to undervalue a $1B/year publicly traded company with a large sales force out explaining to every potential enterprise customer that will listen the virtues of free software.
The Dev Suite thing is kinda cool. Not that I'd buy it :-), but interesting to know that option exists.