Open stack lost because it doesn’t do the job.
I’ve used it at two clients and it lacks critical features. At least with k8s you can bolt on the pieces you need.
I’ve used it at two clients and it lacks critical features. At least with k8s you can bolt on the pieces you need.
OpenStack has been around for 10+ years and mostly just provided slide-ware value and maybe some strategic negotiating leverage and insurance of various forms.
It’s actually interesting to me to hear from the sibling comment, that someone actually got to 1000s of VMs under management. I’m still not convinced it’s necessary or adding value in such situations vs “the field”.
There isn't much competition in the market and most of it is closed source, proprietary stuff - OpenStack in contrast is open source and made to fit the needs of CERN (they run 320.000 nodes). That maybe also explains the choice of Python and the sorry state of its documentation - scientists have ample time to deal with bullshit, corporate does not.
[1] https://www.openstack.org/videos/summits/berlin-2018/towards...
As for docs, they vary from project to project, but one aspect I've encountered as a frustration and heard large scale operators echo, is that often search index results seem to favor some older specific release as opposed to the latest release, which creates a lot of confusion if your not aware of it and don't see the warning on the rendered webpage. Some other popular open source projects have encountered the same exact challenge, and it is a hard need to balance.
[1] https://twitter.com/ArneWiebalck/status/1478778715005984772