Open Stack

On 10/02/2016 11:35 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Chris Dent wrote:
>> [...]
>> Observing this thread and "the trouble with names"[1] one I get
>> concerned that we're trending in the direction of expecting
>> projects/servers/APIs to be done and perfect before they will ever
>> be OpenStack. This, of course, runs entirely contrary to the spirit
>> of open source where people release a solution to their itch and
>> people join with them to make it better.
>>
>> If we start thinking of projects as needing to have "production-grade"
>> implementations and APIs as needing to be stable and correct from
>> the start we're backing ourselves into corners that are very difficult
>> to get out of, distracting ourselves from the questions we ought to be
>> asking, and putting barriers in the way of doing new but necessary
>> stuff and evolving.
>
> I certainly didn't intend to mean that projects need to have a final API
> or perfect implementation before they can join the tent. I meant that
> projects need to have a reference implementation using open source tools
> that has a chance of being used in production one day. Imagine a project
> which uses sqlite in testing but requires Oracle DB to achieve full
> functionality or scaling beyond one user: the sqlite backend would be a
> token open backend for testing purposes but real usage would need you to
> buy into proprietary options. That would certainly be considered "open
> core": a project that pretends to be open but requires proprietary
> technology to be "really used".

apologies if this was asked somewhere else in thread, but should we try 
to define "production" scale or can we even? based on the last survey, 
the vast majority of deployments are under 100nodes[1]. that said, a few 
years ago, one company was dreaming 100,000 nodes.

i'd imagine the 50 node solution won't satisfy the 1000 node solution 
let alone the 10k node. similarly, the opposite direction will probably 
give an overkill solution. it seems somewhat difficult to define 
something against 'production' term unless we scope it somehow (e.g # of 
node ranges)?

[1] http://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/Public-User-Survey-Report.pdf

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gord