On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Clint Byrum <cl...@fewbar.com> wrote: > Excerpts from Fox, Kevin M's message of 2014-01-07 13:11:13 -0800: >> I was going to stay silent on this one, but since you asked... >> >> /me puts his customer hat on >> >> We source OpenStack from RDO for the packages and additional integration >> testing that comes from the project instead of using OpenStack directly. I >> was a little turned off from Triple-O when I saw it was source only. The >> feeling being that it is "too green" for our tastes. Which may be >> inaccurate. While I might be convinced to use source, its a much harder sell >> to us currently then using packages. >> > > Kevin, thanks for sharing. I think I understand that it is just a new > way of thinking and that makes it that much harder to consume. > > We have good reasons for not using packages. And we're not just making > this up as a new crazy idea, we're copying what companies like Netflix > have published about running at scale. We need to do a better job at > making sure why we're doing some of the things we're doing.
Do you have a link for the publication handy? I know they use a blessed AMI approach. But I'm curious about the "not using packages" part, and the advantages they get from that. All I could find from googling is people trying to install netflix from packages to watch movies :). Their AMI build tool seems to indicate they package their apps: https://github.com/Netflix/aminator As does this presentation: http://www.slideshare.net/garethbowles/building-netflixstreamingwithjenkins-juc -- -- James Slagle -- _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev