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Is OpenStack a failure?

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Is OpenStack a failure?

Measured against that mission statement, the project has mostly failed. OpenStack has proven massively scalable, but hyperscale public clouds don’t use it. It is also far from ubiquitous – analyst firm Gartner can find around 2,000 serious production implementations.

What’s wrong with OpenStack?

What is OpenStack? OpenStack is an open source platform that uses pooled virtual resources to build and manage private and public clouds. The tools that comprise the OpenStack platform, called “projects,” handle the core cloud-computing services of compute, networking, storage, identity, and image services.

Who still uses OpenStack?

OpenStack is no one company, it’s a community and these are its most important members

  • Company: Rackspace. Why they’re important: Rackspace is an OpenStack founding father.
  • Company: Dell.
  • Company: IBM.
  • Company: Cisco.
  • Company: Mirantis.
  • Company: Cloudscaling.
  • Company: Piston Cloud Computing Co.
  • Company: Canonical.
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Is OpenStack Dead 2020?

Yes, OpenStack is still alive and well, and it continues to evolve with interesting new features, like StarlingX. But many of the vendors that originally specialized in OpenStack, such as Mirantis, have now shifted their attention to Kubernetes. Others, like SUSE, have dropped out of the OpenStack market altogether.

Does OpenStack have future?

One thing’s for sure – OpenStack isn’t going anywhere. With enterprises around the world trusting it to run their business-critical systems and applications, it may have lost its position as the new, exciting and cool technology of the day to Kubernetes, but it has moved onto a plateau of stability and maturity.

Does Facebook use OpenStack?

Today, Facebook announced a very exciting initiative called the Open Compute Project. OpenStack is building the operating system upon which an open cloud can be built. But building and operating a cloud obviously requires more that just software.

Is OpenStack Dead 2021?

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Is IaaS dead?

The death of IaaS will be slow. Just like mainframes and COBOL are still around, IaaS will likely still be around in some form or another for the next 20-30 years. Legacy is slow to die. You’ll probably keep hearing people talk about the cloud in terms of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS.