OpenStack - Build your own cloud (Or have Mirantis do it!)
January 16, 2018
OpenStack - Build your own cloud (Or have Mirantis do it!)
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Mirantis OpenStack
Mirantis OpenStack was one of the proof of concepts we did to test if we could run our infrastructure on OpenStack.
- Works out of the box. There is very little back-end configuration necessary for users.
- The support is active and response times are very good.
- Staff is extremely knowledgeable and can help with more complex concepts and design ideas.
- Mirantis OpenStack managed services are expensive. Very expensive for a start-up.
- I'd personally like to see a little more under the hood details in the status pages.
- Mirantis could also benefit heavily from a free "light" version that start-ups could use to run their own cloud. Maybe coupled with advertising or some sort of surveys.
- Mirantis did help our business figure out if openstack was right for us.
- Using Mirantis I felt a bit cheated on understanding the deep technical knowledge of how openstack works. But that being said that is probably a value add more than a detractor for most people.
- Using Mirantis was considerably cheaper than AWS.
Mirantis is a managed service. If you're looking for that type of support, infra management, and to relieve yourself of the burden then they are a great option. If you're looking to build your own cloud and save as much money as possible then running openStack yourself is your best option. I would say in the category of OpenStack managed services Mirantis is ahead of Ubuntu (who uses JuJu to manage everything) but behind Rackspace.