Revisiting OpenStack – Design Considerations

“I have found you have got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.”

- John Coltrane

Since the last edition of the Mastering OpenStack series, the OpenStack community has kept the momentum by growing and innovating around its ecosystem. At the time of writing this edition, the OpenStack design has been going through different cycles of improvements by including new projects and providing seamless integration with existing systems to respond to organization demands and custom features. Since the first Austin release back in 2010, the innovation kept opening new opportunities for companies and quickly adopting a stable private cloud setup to stay ahead in the market. The challenges of handling a scalable infrastructure have been felt by big and medium players who joined the OpenStack evolvement. Today, as the first page of this edition is being written, 14 years and 28 releases have already passed...