Openstack is an orchestration platform, but doesn’t deal with the lower-level things directly like IAM, fabric management, resource federation…etc. It sounds like they want to release FOSS tools which do that work. The CoreOS team was actually going to do something similar before being acquired.
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Don’t we already have OpenStack? Something, something OpenStack complicated, something, something. Sounds a bit like raison d’étre.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 months ago
testfactor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was just about to say, isn’t this just OpenStack?
I don’t even think OpenStack is needlessly complicated.
Yes, it is complicated, but who thinks operating a cloud environment the equivalent of AWS is trivial?
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
And OpenStack is a mature open source project, tried, true, used in all sorts of data centers large and small, supported by multiple vendors. I’d take it any day before 10 VC-funded guys’ project. I mean good for them for skinning that cat and if it gains a real community, I might bite.
The_wild_card@lemmy.today 11 months ago
To gain real community people have to use it first if everyone waited like you there won’t be any