Is anyone happily using OpenStack? I genuinely want to learn more about it because it dominates the EU cloud provider landscape.
My uninformed opinion is that it's an inferior cloud offering used only by companies who desire to operate their own private cloud infrastructure or cannot use AWS/Azure/GCP/Cloudflare for some reason.
@Jeremiah I am also curious. I've only heard bad things, but generally haven't seen that many people using it
> an inferior cloud offering
I think there is a misunderstanding here: OpenStack is not a "cloud offering" in the sense of AWS/Azure/etc. Instead it is FOSS allowing you to have control.
If you want control, then AWS et al are useless, more relevant would be to compare OpenStack to other FOSS options.
As I see it, the issue of being independent is much more important than whatever convenient features may or may not be available. It's FOSS: you can modify it as needed.
@eliasr @Jeremiah True that it's not a "cloud offering" like AWS is - but it certainly seems like a cloud ecosystem that you buy into - even if you have the option to modify or shift if you need to.