Flexible, Economical, and Equally Well Performing Cloud Platform.
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.
