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Report Finds OpenStack Still Being Debated In The Industry (sdtimes.com)
mmoorebz writes: Talligent, a provider of cost- and capacity-management solutions for OpenStack and hybrid clouds, announced its 2016 State of OpenStack Report yesterday. In the report, it identified some concerns IT professionals have with OpenStack, its use cases, and some barriers professionals are facing. John Meadows, vice president of business development at Talligent, said that businesses should have confidence in the path OpenStack is taking. "Companies considering adopting OpenStack should understand that there are still challenges with regards to complexity and deployment," said Meadows. "A successful OpenStack deployment will include some mix of technical expertise, operational tools, and the support of a solid OpenStack partner." Additionally, the shift to an on-demand cloud for IT service delivery requires a new approach to tracking, managing and comparing IT resources, said Meadows. Management tools should be designed to support automation, and deliver real-time insight for OpenStack adoption.
What industry?
What is OpenStack?
What is a "hybrid cloud"? What is an "on-demand cloud"? What is a "cloud"?
If I have to ask what three or more things are, or if I have to ask what any one thing is more than once, then you're a fucking troll selling "aaS" shit and you should be run out of town by an angry mob.
Can we wake up from this nightmare now and go back to owning and controlling our hardware, software, and data?
"And, you know, by a weird coincidence, we're an OpenStack partner. What are the odds, hey?"
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Yes, it was a marketing blast. That should have been obvious from the first few words.
However, since it was about a report about OpenStack, it would seem the mentions were pertinent. It's not like they wrote an article about CPU design and threw the references in.
TL;DR: OpenStack is not for everyone, but if you want it, you need to pay Talligent lots of money because your IT staff are idiots. And private cloud.
OpenStack is one of those half-finished open source projects that doesn't really give you all the pieces to do the job. A lot of people think it means you can have a turnkey private cloud with zero admin overhead - like AWS without paying for it. The reality is that keeping it up and running still requires a competent ops team.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
Openstack uses libvirt/qemu/. Libvirt is the default. What Libvirt doesn't give you:
- SDN, including advanced services such as FWaaS, LBaaS, DNSaaS, VPNaaS
- Scalable block storage
- Quick and easy imaging of VMs
If there is another open-source cloud solution that does what Openstack does better than Openstack, I know a lot of people who would be interested in it.
Open Stack is complete and total garbage. I worked on for a company with an OS cluster and I was on their security team briefly. I was moved to other projects that had more money coming in. OS had no customers, the few offerings we tried to put on it were constantly crashing out and having reliability issues. For political reasons, we couldn't move that project to its own VMs and the company continued to haemorrhage money on the OpenStack team.
There's no CVE mailing list either. I had to scrape their LaunchPad to get the latest CVEs and put them in our work request system. Sometimes it would be two weeks before Connonical would even create a package for it (we talked about building our own packages .. )
The company I currently work for has an OpenStack cluster with huge reliability problems as well.
Fuck Open Stack.
Also, fuck Docker in production.