It’s for getting acquainted with the whole software stack. Also I have enough free time for it :)
Comment on ELI5: What is OpenStack? How to get started?
False@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Openstack is like self-hosting your own cloud provider. My 2 cents is that it’s probably way overkill for personal use. You’d probably be interested in it if you had a lot of physical servers you wanted to present as a single pooled resource for utilization.
PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 5 months ago
False@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fair enough. Personally I’d start with their documentation then: docs.openstack.org/install-guide/
Starbuck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I used to be a certified OpenStack Administrator and I’ll say that K8s has eaten its lunch in many companies and in mindshare.
But if you do it, look at triple-o instead of installing from docs.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 months ago
Deploying openstack seems like a very fun and frustrating experience. If you succeed, you should consider graduating from selfhosting and entering hosting business. Then, maybe post your offering on lowendtalk. Not many providers there use openstack so you might be able to lead the pack there.
Chocrates@lemmy.world 5 months ago
To add, hypervisor is very low level, below the operating system often. Hypervisors allow you to run multiple operating systems on the same hardware.
Containers are isolated processes running within an operating system using stuff like cgroups.