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The author is asking for OpenStack to "Implement transparent APIs from AWS, Azure, GCP for OpenStack" There _was_ an EC2 API that OpenStack nova had back in th

The author is asking for OpenStack to "Implement transparent APIs from AWS, Azure, GCP for OpenStack" There _was_ an EC2 API that OpenStack nova had back in the day, that became unmaintained and was eventually removed http://cloudscaling.com/blog/openstack/the-future-of-openstacks-ec2-apis/ http://cloudscaling.com/blog/openstack/the-future-of-opensta... This blog was from 2015, and the end result was that nobody was willing to step up and do the hard work of creating these API compatibility layers. Frankly, there were barely enough resources being put in by large companies, to keep the OpenStack APIs themselves well maintained. So, I think the issue of OpenStack was that everyone suddenly decided to shift to containers, instead of VMs for their deployments, and OpenStack no longer was required.

candiddevmike 4y ago
OpenStack tried to become a container scheduler (Magnum), and then shifted to making kubernetes a first class citizen, it wasn't well received. Oddly enough some of the kubernetes bare metal stuff is borrowing from OpenStack (Metal3 is built on ironic)
- samcat116 4y ago
  The ironic stuff is some of the best services within OpenStack. Its a hard problem and it works surprisingly well.
  - neverartful 4y ago
    'Ironic' is the OpenStack project that deals with bare-metal provisioning. And there is indeed some very cool stuff there!
  - jayofdoom 4y ago
    Thanks! Ironic (ironicbaremetal.org) can be operated standalone outside of Ironic, and we do pay attention to non-OpenStack use cases (e.g. https://metal3.io/ https://metal3.io/). If there's anything you're trying to do with Ironic that you're having trouble with, feel free to come chat. We're on IRC/Matrix on irc.oftc.net, #openstack-ironic. -Jay, Ironic PTL
- sc68cal 4y ago
  I remember when Magnum was being proposed and developed. I think the issue is that it really didn't have that much of a head start on Kubernetes, and the difficulty of getting OpenStack installed, just so that you could use Magnum, compared to just using Kubernetes, sort of doomed Magnum.

candiddevmike 4y ago

OpenStack tried to become a container scheduler (Magnum), and then shifted to making kubernetes a first class citizen, it wasn't well received. Oddly enough some of the kubernetes bare metal stuff is borrowing from OpenStack (Metal3 is built on ironic)

samcat116 4y ago
The ironic stuff is some of the best services within OpenStack. Its a hard problem and it works surprisingly well.
- neverartful 4y ago
  'Ironic' is the OpenStack project that deals with bare-metal provisioning. And there is indeed some very cool stuff there!
- jayofdoom 4y ago
  Thanks! Ironic (ironicbaremetal.org) can be operated standalone outside of Ironic, and we do pay attention to non-OpenStack use cases (e.g. https://metal3.io/ https://metal3.io/). If there's anything you're trying to do with Ironic that you're having trouble with, feel free to come chat. We're on IRC/Matrix on irc.oftc.net, #openstack-ironic. -Jay, Ironic PTL
sc68cal 4y ago
I remember when Magnum was being proposed and developed. I think the issue is that it really didn't have that much of a head start on Kubernetes, and the difficulty of getting OpenStack installed, just so that you could use Magnum, compared to just using Kubernetes, sort of doomed Magnum.