Have you ever experienced anything worse than Openstack? [closed]
The quick install guide is 150 pages and doesn't work. What other software requires the person installing it to do so much work? Is there any other software in the whole world that requires so much work to install?
I have 15 years of full time admin experience, 9 years of VM experience, 5 years linux experience, and 4 years of AWS experience. I have over 100 fully documented attempts at installing Openstack. Devstack, Packstack, Mirantis Fuel, Ubuntu Cloud, .....
Most fail on first or second command due to extremely poor documentation without comments or discussion sections.
When I ask "why does packstack fail" Don't ask for the log. Its not me. Its Openstack. If you can find the solution in the log I'll bet a computer could have as well.
For instance: Devstack is "not production ready" well why the hell not. make it production ready. Mirantis Fuel completely fails if there is a a DHCP server somewhere in the network. You know those super rare DHCP servers that you can't find on every network ever.
Packstack requires multiple docs to install, the official doc linking to a youtube video with no posted commands. It requires CLI and GUI and ANOTHER doc to get it working on your network, cuse who would want that?
Manually copy and paste mac address into a text file using CLI to get it to work? That seems like something a computer can do. You tell me about the network, you are f*ing plugged into it, I'm a human. What is the point of a web GUI if you have to use CLI? wordpress installs one click from GUI!
I agree that the installation is pretty hard. OpenStack isn't a final product that can be use with a Q&A and support. It evolves too fast, that's why the lack of documentations. According to your experience, I guess you know that :) Interesting threads, it will be.
my solution for the fast moving dev hurting documentation is to put a comments section at the bottom of every article. Have problem - google it - first link - FIRST COMMENT is the real code that actually works. everytime.