For years enterprises have tried to make OpenStack work and failed miserably. Considering how many heads have broken against OpenStack, maybe they should have called it OpenBrick.
Before I dive into the details, I’ll cut to the chase. You don’t have to break your heads on cloud anymore. Joyent have open sourced (as in get it on Github) their cloud management platform.
It’s free if you want (install it on your laptop, install it on a server). It’s supported if you want. Best of all, it actually works outside of a lab or CI test suite. It’s what Joyent runs in production for all their public cloud customers (I admit to being one of the satisfied ones). It’s also something they have been licensing out to other cloud providers for years.
Now for the deep dive.