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OpenStack - Cloud Management Platform

OpenStack Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

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OpenStack Reviews & Ratings

4.1

Very Good

Based on 96 ratings & 60 reviews

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Excellent

(30)

Very Good

(24)

Good

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Expert's Review

OpenStack is a versatile and robust tool that offers extensive control over cloud services. Users appreciate the ability to customize services at a root level, making it ideal for creating cloud platforms on on-premise hardware. The visualization interface provides clear infrastructure insights. Despite its strengths, there are some challenges. Users find ...Read more

OpenStack pros and cons

  • Highly customizable and controllable, allowing modification at root levels for service personalization.

  • Extensive features covering virtualization, networking, and container support, meeting diverse infrastructure needs.

  • Strong community support and collaborative environment for development and contributions.

  • Empowers developers with self-service options, promoting agility in deploying and monitoring services.

  • Steep learning curve and complexity in setup, especially for large-scale deployments.

  • Documentation gaps and rough architecture may lead to challenges during integration and setup.

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Pascal W

03/03/19

5 out of 5

"Nice cloud management platform "

What do you like best about OpenStack? It is an open source programming which is incredible, and after some time it has included loads of enormous highlights like database as administration or it arrange management.The execution and the size of OpenStack is colossal. OpenStack wows with its locale support, and gigantic sponsorship from goliath associations. What do you dislike about OpenStack? At first form it has a few crashes generally , yet in late form heaps of bugs have been resolved, ...

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Mohamed Hamdy E

09/28/18

5 out of 5

"Open stack best cloud open source "

What do you like best about OpenStack? Open stack best cloud open source, simplest cheap and powerful. Management is very easy What do you dislike about OpenStack? Need more support for more products and vendors, and need to add more image for more vendors for diffrent technology What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting you? Openstack provide transfer for your on premise infrastructure to cloud very easily. Save more fir reducing physical infrastructure and software licenses

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Hazzim A

04/26/18

4.5 out of 5

"OpenStack in internal projects."

What do you like best about OpenStack? You can build your own cloud with common hardware and no vendor locking, a lot of companies where you can get support and a great community, modular design so you can build a big cloud or a specific one (cloud for storage, SDN, etc) What do you dislike about OpenStack? In some cases with the last features there is a lack of documentation and here is where some companies will tried to tied you to their support contracts. Recommendations to others ...

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Hazzim A

04/26/18

4.5 out of 5

"OpenStack in internal projects."

What do you like best about OpenStack? You can build your own cloud with common hardware and no vendor locking, a lot of companies where you can get support and a great community, modular design so you can build a big cloud or a specific one (cloud for storage, SDN, etc) What do you dislike about OpenStack? In some cases with the last features there is a lack of documentation and here is where some companies will tried to tied you to their support contracts. Recommendations to others ...

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Sunando B

02/28/17

3 out of 5

"Not for the faint-hearted"

What do you like best about OpenStack? Modular design, highly configurable and customisable, powerful system. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Cumbersome to set up and manage, trouble-shooting and upgrading is a pain Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: ONLY consider Openstack if you have a strong technical team in the System Admin domain. Openstack has a steep learning curve and is not for the faint hearted. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting ...

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Sunando B

02/28/17

3 out of 5

"Not for the faint-hearted"

What do you like best about OpenStack? Modular design, highly configurable and customisable, powerful system. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Cumbersome to set up and manage, trouble-shooting and upgrading is a pain Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: ONLY consider Openstack if you have a strong technical team in the System Admin domain. Openstack has a steep learning curve and is not for the faint hearted. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting ...

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Md Safiyat R

01/12/17

5 out of 5

"The best solution for public, private or hyrid cloud."

What do you like best about OpenStack? The performance and the scale of OpenStack is tremendous. Though not as good as some of the private and commercial offerings (read Amazon Web Services), OpenStack wows with its community support, and huge backing from giant organizations. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Though the community is trying to stay focussed and work towards making the software more reliable and improve performance, companies with commercial interests are mostly pushing ...

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MB

Milbra B

09/08/16

3.5 out of 5

"Overall, good, a lot of great work has been done on this platform"

What do you like best about OpenStack? The community really responds to new feature requests and the platform itself has taken a huge leap forward. If you are familiar with Linux and virtualization technologies OpenStack will be a breeze. What do you dislike about OpenStack? It can be complicated and involve to many modules. Knowing OpenStack is open sourced some features work better than others. Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: Try it, you will love it. What problems is ...

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MN

Milad N

05/19/16

4.5 out of 5

"Best open source cloud solution "

What do you like best about OpenStack? First, it is a open source software which is great, over time it is adding lots of big features like database as service or it network management. it has a great support for different hypervisor and it's networking after nova is really good I can help to meet lots of requirement in a real scenario. What do you dislike about OpenStack? At first version it has some crashes mostly nova-compute , but in recent version lots of bugs have solved, but I think ...

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MN

Milad N

05/19/16

4.5 out of 5

"Best open source cloud solution "

What do you like best about OpenStack? First, it is a open source software which is great, over time it is adding lots of big features like database as service or it network management. it has a great support for different hypervisor and it's networking after nova is really good I can help to meet lots of requirement in a real scenario. What do you dislike about OpenStack? At first version it has some crashes mostly nova-compute , but in recent version lots of bugs have solved, but I think ...

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