Hi All, At our Institute we have secured funding to buy a small infrastructure. We have surveyed the computational requirements of researchers and we came to the conclusion that we need to deploy OpenStack on-prem. No one at our Institute has worked with OpenStack before so there is no local expertise. I have been looking around at the available options. Given the complexity of OpenStack and the tight time-frame that we have to get the infrastructure up and running, we would like to go with one of the OpenStack distributions offered by vendors to minimize the time it takes to go into production. Over the initial period, we would need to learn from the vendor how to operate and troubleshoot OpenStack properly, but in the long run we would like to be autonomous. On the other hand, funding in academia is complex and there is no guarantee that we'll be successful in all future funding calls. So in the scenario where we start off with an OpenStack distribution offered by a vendor, and 3 years down the line we run out of budget, can we continue operating/upgrading our OpenStack deployment without issues? Best regards, Sebastian