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Canonical OpenStack Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 9 out of 10
Score
9 out of 10

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Pros

Wide range of features: Many users have praised the product for offering a diverse array of features that cater to their specific needs. This has allowed them to customize their experience and tailor it according to their requirements, resulting in increased productivity and workflow optimization.

Variety of options: Several reviewers have appreciated the wide variety of options available with the product. This flexibility enables them to choose from different settings, configurations, and tools, giving them greater control over their work environment. Users have found this aspect beneficial in enhancing their overall user experience.

Customizable experience: A significant advantage highlighted by numerous customers is the ability to customize their experience with the product. By providing various customization options, such as layouts, themes, and preferences, the product allows users to personalize it according to their preferences and workflows. This level of customization has been well-received by users who value having a tailored solution for their specific requirements.

Reviews

2 Reviews

Flexible, Economical, and Equally Well Performing Cloud Platform.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ubuntu OpenStack is used in my organization by only one department as of now. We use it for purposes of both public clouds and private clouds ie., on-prem clouds within our customers premises. Ubuntu OpenStack is great in handling and addressing business problems like securing very critical and important data of our clients, not to make it public on public cloud networks. For this very reason, we create on-prem cloud setup with Ubuntu OpenStack for such clients.

Pros

  • Flexibility for deploying and managing virtual machines.
  • Full fledged documentation for self learners within organization.
  • Great that it's fully an open source offering. Hence light on pockets.

Cons

  • More customizable options while choosing virtual machine configurations would be great.
  • To have regular online learning sessions directly from Ubuntu OpenStack experts [to] help users and for those who implement it.
  • Giving admin more control on what privileges they can grant to their users.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ubuntu OpenStack is well suited for startups where there are very tight financial constraints. As Ubuntu OpenStack is open source, the startup organizations will not have to spend a lot when compared to their commercial offerings in the market.

Ubuntu OpenStack is less appropriate in organizations where they don't want to have private on-prem clouds. As deploying a private on-prem cloud is a very cumbersome and tedious task, the organizations must have a dedicated team to manage such on-prem deployments.

VU
Verified User
Consultant in Research & Development (5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Canonical OpenStack
2 years of experience

First In Class, Open Source for Data-center Management

Rating: 8 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Ubuntu OpenStack is being used by the whole organization and beyond. It is used internally by developers to create development and integration environments. Also used with Jenkins to create a VM, deploy automatically an app and launch automated tests on it then destroy the VM. It is also used for hosting services.

Pros

  • Very easy to use, learning curve is very short. Don't need to invest months of training before using it
  • Well suited with Jenkins for automated tests
  • Works well on large sets of heterogeneous hardware

Cons

  • Support for High Availability should be better
  • Commercial offerings should be more precise and clear
  • Provide more help and tools to migrate from VMware to OpenStack

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need to support diverse infrastructures then you need OpenStack. Also if you can't afford to pay costly licenses for commercial products then it is a no brainer. If you need to quickly recover for failures OpenStack will provide self healing and automatic load balancing! Don't use it if your hardware is homogeneous.

VU
Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Canonical OpenStack
1 year of experience