and I have the complete opposite view. Openstack is killing it even though it's as crappy as everything else in many ways. It's without cost, it's automatable, you don't build inhouse software to handle it, and you build applications that can withstand software and hardware failures.
Openstack isn't a replacement for configuration management.
The massive design by committee is fantastic, because you can help change and adapt where openstack goes. You don't have that option with insert vendor.
I've worked for two companies that hemorrhaged money trying to set up functional open stack environments. I was on an openstack security team for one company. Omg...yea I'm not going three. I don't feel like raging before bed.
My favorite part is this quote: "Hardware was a bit of a surprise, frankly. It's clearly a lot of money, but even doubling the utilization had a tiny impact compared to helping people get work done."
That's right. People in business, IT teams prefer to get shit done over see some utilization numbers go up. That they were surprised by this shows a disconnect from reality. Especially given all the cloud marketing talks about helping one get stuff done by focusing on core business instead of IT infrastructure. Double fail.
Openstack is so expensive in implementation effort that I've repeatedly had to implement custom solutions because the effort requires to use Openstack would have totally blown the budget.
That there's no license cost does not make it without cost.
Openstack isn't a replacement for configuration management.
The massive design by committee is fantastic, because you can help change and adapt where openstack goes. You don't have that option with insert vendor.
We just disagree completely