My two cents: In brief, to make OpenStack irrelevant, I think providers would need to adopt emerging features/demands much faster and be more flexible. Short of that or the OpenStack community/leadership failing or splintering, I expect it to grow and be around a while (at least in some form).
It feels like there is definitely a lot changing right now due to dynamic and externally hosted infrastructure. Still, I see OpenStack mostly gaining momentum, not losing it, due to players like HP and VMware trying to integrate it. However, that can swing the other way quickly and it's true that other similar projects (e.g. eucalyptus) and a few early OpenStack players (e.g. Nebula.com) have diminished or folded. The main reason I think OpenStack (or something similar) will continue to exist is that many people want flexibility not offered by external services. My site is a good example of that. We are frankly somewhat frustrated by OpenStack but it still seems like the best option for our agenda, which is about scientific computing and currently underserved by IaaS providers. And I think other factors driving that desire for flexibility are innovations that sometimes are slow to be adopted by commercial service providers. Those providers typically want to be able to offer a scalable and reliable service stack. But not everyone values scalability or even reliability over certain innovative features. Integrating container management to orchestration platforms is an example of that. Interesting question. Thanks for asking it; I'm enjoying the responses. Matt D. > On May 17, 2015, at 10:26, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've heard from multiple people, who I respect greatly, that OpenStack is > going to die off, but I just don't see it. The modern IT infrastructure is > heavily populated with products and technologies that were a really bad idea > in their original release. So, while I think OpenStack has some serious > problems, I think it is going to be around for quite a while. > > I would like to hear what a number of other folks who I respect think. > > -- Matt > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
