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I have run multiple datacenter automation teams. Essentially providing the plumbing for provisioning bare metal. We looked at open stack several times and neve
by bogota 4y ago
I have run multiple datacenter automation teams. Essentially providing the plumbing for provisioning bare metal.
We looked at open stack several times and never had a team large enough to justify trying to run it. It’s just way too complex and requires too many machines to get the full stack running. We could manage 5k plus machines with just 5 relatively small hosts and keeping the stack extremely simple.
Now you are going to say that we don’t provide the same features and that is true but the few cases where it would have been nice didn’t justify it.
I can write a datacenter automation system from scratch that i know won’t be causing me alerts at night faster than I can get a resilient openstack setup running. Unless that changed why would I use it.
- throwyo234a65 4y agoI am interested by your expertise as we'll soon be building data center automation and would appreciate having a consultant being able to advise us on what we'd need to plan for. Could you please contact me at this address: 7vmq5a5fd@mozmail.com
- mattpallissard 4y agoLarge bare metal installations are one of those few places where it often makes sense to roll your own for large swaths of the stack.
- bogota 4y agoThat is true and why i tried to stay working in that area so long. AWS eventually ate my lunch so I have switched to a pure SWE role now and just happen to setup a lot of the cloud infra as well. I’m hoping some time I can work on DC automation again though. Brings me a lot of joy to get to figure out why the brand new NICs are eating LLDP packets before they get to the hosts and other fun problems you never get to see in the cloud.