OpenStack debates show that the platform is maturing
September 5, 2015
Grazed from V3.co.uk. Author: Daniel Robinson.
The topics of debate at the OpenStack Silicon Valley conference at the end of August were not restricted to new features and capabilities under development for the cloud computing framework, but extended to discussions about what direction the project should take in the future, often with diametrically opposing views.
Does this mean that the cracks are starting to show in the OpenStack community? Or is this all simply a sign that OpenStack has now become such a key technology to many companies that its future direction is a matter of great import? OpenStack may have started as a collaborative project between Nasa and Rackspace to emulate Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, but as an open platform for building cloud infrastructure. However, it has since mushroomed into a kind of overarching umbrella project for all kinds of open source solutions covering software-defined storage, big data analytics, software-defined networking and more…
OpenStack is basically a management framework into which services must be plugged to deliver a working system, and this has become its strength and weakness. It can be configured in numerous ways to suit almost any particular application you have in mind, but this has led to complexity and stability problems for some users…
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