OpenStack project TripleO speeds deployment, may threaten some third party tools

July 24, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from ITWorld. Author: Nancy Gohring.

One of the biggest barriers in OpenStack right now is deployment. It’s complicated. That’s why companies like Mirantis and eNovance that help businesses build OpenStack deployments are getting millions in investments. It’s why most of the marquee enterprise OpenStack deployments you hear of are at huge organizations that have the staff – or the deep pockets to hire a team of consultants – to build their OpenStack clouds. And it’s why companies like Puppet and Opscode have a big presence at OpenStack events, where they have a growing base of customers that use their products to help with deployment of OpenStack clouds.

That all could change. OpenStack now has an official program around TripleO, a project apparently largely funded by HP to develop tools that make it easy to deploy OpenStack. I suspect this isn’t welcome news for some of the third party tools designed to ease deployment, although it’s possible the two tool sets can work together…

TripleO stands for “OpenStack on OpenStack,” because the idea is to use OpenStack to deploy OpenStack. Wired’s Cade Metz has an approachable take on this concept of cloud-on-cloud computing, with a bit of a story of the roots of TripleO. In a blog post about the new OpenStack program, Robert Collins, distinguished technologist at HP, writes that less than a year ago he was tasked with working on a project that would solve the problem of deploying OpenStack for production…

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