OpenStack trends on Twitter reveal the good, bad and ugly

OpenStack has had some growing pains since its first release in October 2010, but remains a popular open source option for cloud. Enterprises and cloud providers are attracted to OpenStack because of the control and flexibility it provides them when developing cloud services -- but it's not without its challenges.

On Twitter, OpenStack trends emerge, with some praising the freedom from vendor lock-in and others complaining about deployment. OpenStack is trying to address these challenges with each new update, including the most recent version, Mitaka. But a lack of support still causes some users to seek answers from the IT community.

Here are some recent OpenStack trends and questions surfacing on Twitter:

'This is the future' but it's not, it's now and it's winning the war on proprietary and vendor lock-in! #OpenStack https://t.co/SBzCe7ayym

— Col Chambers (@Mellanox_Col) May 19, 2016

Does anyone know if there is an #openstack project to implement Azure API?

— Joel Wirāmu, Pauling (@aenertia) May 19, 2016

Dynamic workloads that need to be scaled up and down may be best suited to the public cloud. #aws #azure #openstack #cloud #google.

— Net Communications (@NetcomAustralia) May 19, 2016

Lab Day, yay !!! #Openstack deployment via RHEL OSP 8 today. Undercloud nearly completed.

— Chris Blake (@gumby_blake) May 18, 2016

@mrpointy maintaining maybe not 😁

— Jacky Huang (@jackyhuang00) May 22, 2016

So the Image service API v1 can upload from a http location but v2 cannot? Scratching my head at the #OpenStack docs tonight.

— Blake Garner (@trodemaster) May 18, 2016

Little sad, little relieved, @ unsubscribing from #openstack mailing lists

— Robert Collins (@rbtcollins) May 18, 2016

Upgraded from #OpenStack Havana to Mitaka in record time. Skipping all intermediate upgrades. Seems to work really nice!!! In prod!

— Gonzalo Aguilar (@gaguilardelgado) May 17, 2016