Rackspace is back with a seat on the OpenInfra Foundation board

Rackspace, one of the original creators of OpenStack, has been welcomed back into the fold with a seat on the Board of Directors for the OpenInfra Foundation, which oversees the project after apparently losing interest for several years. OpenStack, the open source cloud infrastructure platform, had its roots in a joint project …

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Overly Complex, by the numbers?

For something that's not an especially large estate, requiring a "dedicated team comprising more than 150 OpenStack experts and 50-plus Kubernetes administrators" indicates a significant level of complexity. That tells me that deployment needs a team of dedicated trained experts, which tells me that the technology isn't suitable for deployment by the majority of organisations.

And also those staffing numbers tell me it's 3 times worse than Kubernetes. Gulp.

(If a disinterested partner contributes over 5 million lines of code then maybe, just maybe, the suite is far too big and bloated.)

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Not as complex as it looks, esp in recent years

We run OpenStack at the Sanger with a team of 3 providing ~0.5 FTE support for it each and StackHPC backstopping + assisting with upgrades and redeployments (can't recommend them enough). Now admittedly the guys we have are top tier *NIX + systems + networking gurus but it certainly proves it's not impossible. It's never going to be VMware levels of simple but it's not VMware levels of cost either. OpenStack is for teams who want to provide a platform for others to compute on, and aren't afraid of proper Linux skills.