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by karma_vaccum123 3573 days ago
Agreed. OpenStack is a total dumpster fire, yet still companies like RedHat push it.

I narrowly avoided a long term (career-derailing) OpenStack assignment...four days in...oh, this is all based on OpenStack?...transfer approved
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rconti 3573 days ago
Good to know. For a year or two now, I've felt guilty that I haven't taken the time to learn OpenStack, and felt I was missing out on a career-enriching experience.
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djsumdog 3572 days ago
I worked for a company that did openstack; was pulled into their security team. That company dumped so much money just to have a terrible openstack client offering.

There was no CVE mailing list like other projects. We had to scrape their launchpad bug tracker. On top of that none of the package repos we checked (Canonical's, Debian's .. couple of others) would even have package updates for up to three weeks on some of the CVEs. We started building out own CI so we could build and patch ourselves. Then I got pulled from the open stack team onto something that was not a bottomless pit of haemorrhaging money.

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harlowja 3572 days ago
So out of curiosity, what did you see about OpenStack that made you go this route?

I myself am a PTL (project technical lead) in one of the OpenStack projects and although I do understand where you are coming from I wonder what the gist of the experience you had was...

Care to share what experiences you have that made you think 'total dumpster fire'?

I know the software isn't perfect, but then what software is? Also I've seen that the OpenStack 'having a bad time experience' is as much of a cultural change as it is a software change; ie, OSS in general isn't a take and not contribute kind of thing, that's not how it really works/gets better.

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