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Do you think it would be feasible to provide a bare-metal cloud made of cheap ARM or Atom servers while giving each server its own independent SSD?

• pquerna 12y ago
  Yes, most definately. OpenStack Ironic[1] can do this today, given you had right hardware. Making that hardware "mutli-tenant" is not a trivial project, mostly because the firmware stacks are still very closed, but it can be done. Top of Rack switches are also another area of complexity/pain, but also feasible to overcome with a little engineering. [1]: OpenStack has its complexities, but the OnMetal project has upstreamed everything feasible we can.
  • andrewsomething 12y ago
    These folks seemed to tried that approach, but gave up on Ironic for a number of reasons: https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack
    • pquerna 12y ago
      True; I think it is reasonable project to take on if you are willing to staff developers... if you are trying to build a "bare metal" public cloud, having developers on staff is going to be a prerequisite for quite some time going forward.