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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
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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Dariusz C
02/02/16
"Leading OpenSource IaaS platform"
What do you like best about OpenStack? What I value the most at OpenStack is the OpenSource community support that comes up in many ways. Firstly, it easy to find an OpenStack installation designated for platform of your choice (we used RDO for a RedHat installation). Secondly, there is a thriving discussion list were you can easily find help about almost everything. Lastly, there is a wide variety of plugins, thrid part projects that may potentially help meeting your business goals. For ...
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Anonymous User
01/25/16
"Very useful for starting up cloud instances to test and replicate environments/ unix boxes"
What do you like best about OpenStack? We deployed on our own server. Very easy to monitor and apply security and limit pool of users. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Nothing. I prefer it to a lot of other services. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting you? We were trying to keep down costs, as well as be able to make deployments and testing consistent and easier to automate.
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Jed C
01/19/16
"A great alternative to the public cloud or more expensive on-prem solutions"
What do you like best about OpenStack? Once it's running and configured correctly it's pretty much bullet proof. What do you dislike about OpenStack? It can be difficult to setup without using a Linux distro that already has it built in. Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: It is a good solution that may meet your needs. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting you? Reducing server footprint without migrating to the public cloud.
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Stefano Z
01/19/16
"Very interesting, but could be better"
What do you like best about OpenStack? The fact that it uses readily-available low-level tools, it makes easier to work with it What do you dislike about OpenStack? Setup is very painful, and if you don't need all the features it's hard to trim down the documentation to find your way through it based on your needs. Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: Be sure you understand the cost-benefit tradeoffs, as it's not that easy to setup and it requires a lot of time for maintenance. ...
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Stefano Z
01/19/16
"Very interesting, but could be better"
What do you like best about OpenStack? The fact that it uses readily-available low-level tools, it makes easier to work with it What do you dislike about OpenStack? Setup is very painful, and if you don't need all the features it's hard to trim down the documentation to find your way through it based on your needs. Recommendations to others considering OpenStack: Be sure you understand the cost-benefit tradeoffs, as it's not that easy to setup and it requires a lot of time for maintenance. ...
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Usman Ehtesham G
01/12/16
"Openstack Review"
What do you like best about OpenStack? First of all, since I am a passionate Python developer, I love that there is an open source implementation of cloud services in Python. Openstack encourages open source development and contributions including helping new developers getting on board. They have very detailed documentation, good bug tracking with good filtering options. They even provide an IRC channel so that developers and dev ops can ask questions about installiong an openstack service ...
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Paul R
01/12/16
"Open Source, and Open Stack, for the win."
What do you like best about OpenStack? OpenStack's open source approach gives it a unique advantage over competing cloud management infrastructures. The approach allows for a good amount of "pick and choose" style cloud architecture/design, while minimizing hidden gotchas. What do you dislike about OpenStack? OpenStack's open source approach means that it can take quite some time for needed improvements to make their way into production use. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is ...
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Lorenzo A
01/12/16
"Best project code ever read (nova)."
What do you like best about OpenStack? Nova's project structure and some of the architectural choices performed by maintainers. The ability to keep the pieces of the biggest open-source project in the world. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Code review system. I still have an open bug. I didn't manage to fix it in a reasonable time because of the CI systems. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting you? I used it for research purposes. I implemented a consolidator ...
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Anonymous User
01/12/16
"OpenStack Review"
What do you like best about OpenStack? Open Sourced, collaborative movement with great knowledge sharing amongst peers. The community helps each other a lot. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Complicated setup and steep learning curve. What problems is OpenStack solving and how is that benefiting you? Setting up Virtualized/Containerized Network Functions
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Rohit K
01/12/16
"Good solution for private or on-premise cloud infrastructure"
What do you like best about OpenStack? Openstack has an extensive API for all it's core services like Compute, Storage and Networking. Being open source, and flexibly licensed, it allows customized deployment as well as functionality. Support for a lot of hardware and software backends, due to it's pluggable, modular architecture is another big plus. What do you dislike about OpenStack? Scale issues are still unaddressed for years. Doesn't scale well for large deployments, let aside public ...
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