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On 16 Feb 2017, at 19:42, Fox, Kevin M <Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov<mailto:Kevin.Fox at pnnl.gov>> wrote:

+1. The assumption was market forces will cause the best OpenStack deployment tools to win. But the sad reality is, market forces are causing people to look for non OpenStack solutions instead as the pain is still too high.

While k8s has a few different deployment tools currently, they are focused on getting the small bit of underlying plumbing deployed. Then you use the common k8s itself to deploy the rest. Adding a dashboard, dns, ingress, sdn, other component is easy in that world.

IMO, OpenStack needs to do something similar. Standardize a small core and get that easily deployable, then make it easy to deploy/upgrade the rest of the big tent projects on top of that, not next to it as currently is being done.

Thanks,
Kevin

Unfortunately, the more operators and end users question the viability of a specific project, the less likely it is to be adopted.
It is a very very difficult discussion with an end user to explain that function X is no longer available because the latest OpenStack upgrade had to be done for security/functional/stability reasons and this project/function is not available.
The availability of a function may also have been one of the positives for the OpenStack selection so finding a release or two later that it is no longer in the portfolio is difficult.
The deprecation policy really helps so we can give a good notice but this assumes an equivalent function is available. For example, the built in Nova EC2 to EC2 project was an example where we had enough notice to test the new solution in parallel and then move with minimum disruption.  Moving an entire data centre from Chef to Puppet or running a parallel toolchain, for example, has a high cost.
Given the massive functionality increase in other clouds, It will be tough to limit the OpenStack offering to the small core. However, expanding with unsustainable projects is also not attractive.
Tim

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Ed Leafe<ed at leafe.com<mailto:ed at leafe.com>>  wrote:
On Feb 16, 2017, at 10:07 AM, Doug Hellmann<doug at doughellmann.com<mailto:doug at doughellmann.com>>  wrote:

When we signed off on the Big Tent changes we said competition
between projects was desirable, and that deployers and contributors
would make choices based on the work being done in those competing
projects. Basically, the market would decide on the "optimal"
solution. It's a hard message to hear, but that seems to be what
is happening.
This.

We got much better at adding new things to OpenStack. We need to get better at letting go of old things.

-- Ed Leafe




I agree that the market will dictate what continues to survive, but if
you're not careful you may be speeding up the decline as the end user
(deployer/operator/cloud consumer) will switch completely to something
else because it becomes to difficult to continue to consume via what
used to be there and no longer is.  I thought the whole point was to
not have vendor lock-in.  Honestly I think the focus is too much on
the development and not enough on the consumption of the development
output.  What are the point of all these features if no one can
actually consume them.


+1 to that.

I've been in the boat of development and consumption of it for my
*whole* journey in openstack land and I can say the product as a whole
seems 'underbaked' with regards to the way people consume the
development output. It seems we have focused on how to do the dev. stuff
nicely and a nice process there, but sort of forgotten about all that
being quite useless if no one can consume them (without going through
much pain or paying a vendor).

This has or has IMHO been a factor in why certain are companies (and the
people they support) are exiting openstack and just going elsewhere.

I personally don't believe fixing this is 'let the market forces' figure
it out for us (what a slow & horrible way to let this play out; I'd
almost rather go pull my fingernails out). I do believe it will require
making opinionated decisions which we have all never been very good at.

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