[chaps]

When I worked at rackspace in 2016/2017 we couldn't even internally get a critical Openstack server reprovisioned after it was accidentally given 4GB of disk instead of 4GB of ram and would break when it ran out of disk space. Nobody knew how to reprovision it and the company's internal documentation wasn't accurate so the server malingered around with its unnecessarily large 64GB memory pool.

Just sayin'.

[junto]

I think it’s pretty sad what happened to Rackspace. Around 2010 they had a truly awesome service and support and an API that was well designed. Openstack seemed like a great idea. AWS, GCP and Azure killed it off and all their talent jumped ship or were laid off. Pity really that it never came to anything. As far as I’m now concerned it’s dead and I would t risk anything on it.

[neverartful]

I worked onsite at 'the castle' in San Antonio as an Intel employee as part of the OSIC (OpenStack Innovation Center) collaboration between Intel and Rackspace. There was a tremendous amount of OpenStack talent there at the time. I hated working there because of the noise and distractions, but it was awesome to have some of the OpenStack talent there to speak with in person.

[HocusLocus]

Wow, 2010 was a full two years after they refused to hire me. And I started a Freenet and an ISP and was a CCTLD administrator and a telco contact and somewhat Cisco guru, and managed BGP routes with experience on several unixii. My wife and I had been early customers (4 digit cust number) with a dedicated server. I showed up in San Antone just asking for an interview, they punted me to the website and never called back.

(In retrospect) THANK YOU, RACKSPACE for not trapping me with a great salary in Texas and instead forcing me to Plan B which was get any job I could get in small town OK and be able to finish raising my son and daughter.

[ethbr1]

There are worse interviewee questions than "Give me an overview of how you'd get a server provisioned"

[chaps]

Flip it around -- I would consider it to be a large red flag if the company behind Openstack was unable to use Openstack because of brain drain and infrastructure rot.