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> Everything above is a moot point because Docker. OpenStack does more than containerise. Docker Inc. are racing up the stack to catch juicy value, but so is
by jacques_chester 11y ago
> Everything above is a moot point because Docker.
OpenStack does more than containerise.
Docker Inc. are racing up the stack to catch juicy value, but so is everyone else.
Red Hat, Pivotal[0] and IBM are already at the top of the stack with OpenShift and Cloud Foundry, so it's getting crowded.
But in the middle there's an awful lot of mechanism required to run an IaaS and OpenStack is the only serious opensource contender around.
[0] disclaimer: I work in Pivotal Labs.
- bhaisaab 11y ago'the only serious opensource contender around', have you heard of Apache CloudStack? It has seen some serious usage: http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html
- jacques_chester 11y agoI haven't, thanks for the tip.
- kordless 11y agoRacing up the stack doesn't imply you are dragging your ass up the same stack down below. There are some serious contenders in the container space that simply don't require anything below them but bare metal. They don't need virtualization, and microservices practices are being investigated in every company I'm talking to ATM. OpenStack can do whatever the fuck it wants to, but it's not going to be enough to capture massive market share with consumer coders. Like I said up top, OpenStack is destined to play out it's future in a low margin vertical, who's margins are getting lower by the day.