Cloud Computing: OpenStack Still Has A Place In The Stack

Grazed from NextPlatform. Author: Timothy Prickett.

The IT industry likes drama perhaps a bit more than is warranted by what actually goes on in the datacenters of the world. We are always spoiling for a good fight between rival technologies because the clash results in competition, which drives technologies forward and prices down.

Ultimately, organizations have to pick some kind of foundation for their modern infrastructure, and OpenStack, the cloud controller spawned from NASA and Rackspace Hosting nearly six years ago, is a growing and vibrant community that, despite the advent of Docker containers and the rise of Mesos and Kubernetes as an alternative substrate for virtualized infrastructure, continues to see market uptake and companies moving from proofs of concept to production…

It is fun to pit OpenStack against Mesos and Kubernetes, as we have done here at The Next Platform from time to time, and not just because it is an academic thought experiment. Ultimately, way down under the applications and the layers of abstraction that hide the real servers, switches, and storage that comprise clusters from those applications, there has to be something that is ultimately in control. So long as OpenStack continues to evolve and, more importantly, continues to work on fit and finish and other operational aspects of the cloud controller and its adjacent projects, then it will get its adherents because for many…

Read more from the source @ http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/04/25/openstack-still-place-stack/