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Openstack has the worst documentation of any major open source product that I’ve ever seen. It takes a team of at least three experts, who have used openstack b
by chatmasta 9y ago
Openstack has the worst documentation of any major open source product that I’ve ever seen. It takes a team of at least three experts, who have used openstack before, to setup a cluster. Many features are completely undocumented; others are hopelessly out of date.
It’s a massive, massive project with years of technical debt. It was a bit ahead of its time, and newer projects like Kubernetes have been able to learn from its mistakes. If openstack was designed today, it would have a much different architecture.
It’s used by major enterprises, so it will be around for a while, providing jobs to the engineers who have become specialists in it.