Top Rated OpenStack Alternatives
First of all, Openness: It's a free and open source project, if it doesn't contain that awesome feature you wish so much, you have the opportunity to contribute to get it on the project. The community behind it is composed mostly by developers of the hundred cloud companies that support and make use of the project. That means a huge base of users under several vendor's cloud around the world, bringing some reliability to the project. The community cares about avoiding vendor lock-in and thus there are initiatives to assure vendor's openstack cloud compatibility with OpenStack's.
Also, quality assurance (QA) *really* matters in OpenStack. You'll see unit, functional and integration tests, besides a rigorous code review process on every change proposed for every project. Of course it's not bug free, nothing is IMHO but I feel like its community is a huge example of how QA should be done.
It's an abstraction layer to manage all the different services necessary to get a cloud environment up and running, thus you can chose which hypervisor, storage and network kind you want to use (which means that your knowledge on your current infrastructure will be useful using OpenStack as well).
Finally the fast growing ecosystem around it, thanks to the big tent initiative, will provide most of all the services and tooling you may need to deploy or offer a robust cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Docs are far from ideal, in quantity and quality, OpenStack is huge and things change way to fast and thus sometimes documentation doesn't help you to explore the latest or best of OpenStack.
To deploy openstack isn't a easy task, every single project has a ton of options, and of course it's hard to keep puppet/chef/ansible/some-other-tool sync'ed with the volume of new features every release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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You are in control of all the services and software, you can go to the root level of each service and modify it to your needs. We can use this to even create our cloud service platform over on-premise hardware. Moreover, it has a very useful visualization interface to get a clear picture of the infrastructure we build upon it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Few of the plugins or SDN need to be configured a lot and be even maintained timely. I would suggest using Ansible to manage those configurations as it will be automated then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The versatility and hybrid-cloud capability of openstack make it the best solution for custom-tailored configurations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
OpenStack requires more infrastructure to get started than other big vendor solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is open source. By having the know-how to implement it, you can build your own cloud environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The installation process of each package and its integration complicated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Freely available on-prem cloud software orchestrator.
Excellent top-down design with widest range of features (virtual networks, bare-metal support, container support, integrated VM and container support, vlan-aware VM support), etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Complex architecture. Hard to get experienced personnel to support huge clouds and train new personnel.
Stability not the best (hard to get five nines inspite of providing redundancy for most components and services). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has high formidable expectations which I like all the same in this private cloud system which offers rackspace through Openstack as the main service for its respective function in general, among these aspects is a fast uptime in the software For mobilized management, log to the simple platform for more efficient workflow, maintain capacity and performance analysis for the latest data on each customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Does not have supervision of the company's digital supplies obtaining significant losses for this add-on that helps the beneficiary and not to the economic failure, the prices can be difficult to understand since it has various packages for its different accesses of functions for each client , thanks to its inconsistent interface that contains few tasks for user manipulation, especially when they are beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Its main advantage is that as it is an open source tool it is completely free, therefore it is an ideal tool for all organizations and therefore it would not affect their economic aspect. It is a very easy to use and highly scalable tool, therefore it is not necessary to have highly trained personnel to use it, its comfortable interface allows you to quickly adapt personnel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
One of the most useful and frequent features of OpenStack is container management, therefore it should be a bit simpler and less complex because it is the most commonly used by users and it is complex to delay their work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Best part is its an Open source solution with support of compute, storage, networking and UI. It has got great community support with deployment tools and scripts readily available. Best for utilising the onprem devices. Great third party plugin support to meet the requirements. Open to mostly all kinds of hypervisors, storage and network solution to integrate with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Docs are not updated with the changes happening with it. Openstack Deployment is not very easy. Troubleshooting is a bit difficult for a newbie. Scope for Architecture improvisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Openstack provides massive flexibility for deploying and managing virtual machines when combined with a GIT CI/CD pipeline it can massively reduce the time for each development cycle. Many other companies are using OpenStack due to the cost and so it is good to be using popular software that enables us to support customers better. The online documentation is great and very detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Openstack is quite complex and has a steep learning curve if you're prepared to invest the time it is great. Due to the nature of the software having in house experts is beneficial as many users struggle with some aspects and requiring everyone to be an expert incurs significant time costs. Having multiple users working on the same OpenStack deployment can create inter-team friction due to normal users being limited inwhat details they can view about the OpenStack deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is an open source programming which is incredible, and after some time it has included loads of enormous highlights like database as administration or it arrange management.The execution and the size of OpenStack is colossal. OpenStack wows with its locale support, and gigantic sponsorship from goliath associations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
At first form it has a few crashes generally , yet in late form heaps of bugs have been resolved, yet I figure its UI can be planned better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
