GoOpenStack PSA from Delta — cheered up the Stackers from Seattle to Atlanta this morning!
Before I retire for the night, here are the top three things I’ll be looking for this summit (apart from meeting ton of smart people, some of them I am lucky to be friends with.)
- Enterprise Workloads
As I had noted in the last summit, I still find customers looking for pointers to the right kind of workloads to run on OpenStack clouds. More precisely, enterprise workloads. I had highlighted some before, we have some use cases published. We also have some use case sessions(Disney, WellsFargo, Paypal, AT&T and more) this summit there are interesting panels(Scaling out, Business Case etc) on that too. I will also be finding first hand from those that I talk to. It is not the surprise the theme this summit is to Go Enterprise!
- Operator Challenges
For the first time, we have a Ops Meetup dedicated for operators. Thanks to Tom for bringing this to fruition.I will be co-moderating a session on Security along with Bryan Payne. Great way to get first hand feedback from operators. If you are an operator, please let me know what you are challenges are.
- Developer pain-points
This eco-system is largely developer driven. However, there are some developer pain points. What are some challenges? I hear that finding/ hiring OpenStack talent is getting difficult. I hear that training new developer is also difficult (OpenStack Upstream training was a valuable start in getting newbees trained). Please let me know what your pain-point is.
[On behalf of TheNewStack I have also been analyzing OpenStack code contribution over the past 4 releases and see some interesting patterns/ trends. Tune in for the report on that soon]
As you can see, I am less concerned about scale or maturity or cost. I think we are mature enough to handle large scale deployments. Of course, more work needs to be done. These are some asks to make more progress and better impact.
Go OpenStack!