19 engineers on Hacker News describe using OpenStack first-hand: 2 endorse it, 4 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“we used OpenStack for several dozen hypervisors to run a lot of infra/services instances/VM”
endorse · production · throw0101d · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run on openstack ... Edit: openstack works remarkably well.”
endorse · production · znpy · 2020-08-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are ready to move our data out of OpenStack and have our data services join the rest of our apps”
regret · production · chrissnell · 2016-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The most of my problems can from the private openstack installation kubernetes was running on.”
regret · production · eicnix · 2016-12-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“what took us from a mess of 400+ ill-maintained OpenStack instances to a beautiful environment”
regret · production · chrissnell · 2016-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I went to work with OpenStack I immediately found the lack of completeness, inconsistency and lack of polish”
regret · production · hoodoof · 2015-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“OpenStack moves slowly compared to a team developing proprietary software. This is a well-known fact.”
mixed · production · jroll · 2015-01-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the end result is not a fully functional OpenStack installation. I have no idea how much longer that will take”
mixed · personal · faster · 2014-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our Spring/Kotlin JVM servers on cheap vms in Google cloud and in another data center using openstack.”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2022-07-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use CityNetwork public cloud managed services (MongoDB, Rancher/Kubernetes and Openstack for edge network/load balancer)”
neutral · production · permb · 2021-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are a bit advantaged because we run on openstack, run our own registry (harbor)”
neutral · production · znpy · 2021-09-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“dealing with it for years as part of OpenStack and projects before that.”
neutral · production · jpgvm · 2021-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are migrating our on-prem from VMware to OpenStack”
neutral · production · tyldum · 2020-07-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We get OpenShift, OpenStack, and more running in prod in both air-gapped, and ssl-proxied environments”
neutral · production · atgreen · 2018-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are a lot of customers using NSX and OpenStack using fully supported, fully modern security solutions in production today. I've been involved in said projects”
neutral · production · windexh8er · 2015-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“switched to xfs with Ceph for our OpenStack product”
neutral · production · lloydde · 2015-04-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Clusters are 10-30 machines, some we run virtual on open stack.”
neutral · production · subprotocol · 2014-05-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I work on Openstack, which uses gerrit for review.”
neutral · production · stonith · 2013-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we spent $3k on a 96M RAM 12core box that we run OpenStack on”
neutral · production · knewter · 2012-07-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?