I spent 18 months deploying Openstack inside a pretty broken huge company. Openstack is a disaster, because so many of the people building it have never used A

I spent 18 months deploying Openstack inside a pretty broken huge company. Openstack is a disaster, because so many of the people building it have never used AWS and are instead trying to build "VMWare, but for free." Object storage is such an afterthought that there are regular rumblings that Swift shouldn't even be part of core Openstack. The six-month release cadence keeps delivering broken software. The releases are slushy enough that configuration options change mid-release, so you can't perform minor upgrades without potentially breaking something. The big companies backing Openstack are using it as a cloud story that they can present to Wall Street, or as a bargaining chip to get better terms from VMWare. Most of the Openstack startups have been aqui-hired, and life has moved on.