Blog posts tagged
"stuckstack"

5 posts

Canonical
26 September 2017

Four steps to mobilising legacy OpenStack and escaping StuckStack

Article Cloud and server

According to figures from the OpenStack Foundation, just 20 per cent of users are using the latest version of the software. Companies that fall to far behind updates risk becoming stuck on an older version of OpenStack, leaving themselves in danger of higher costs, diminishing agility and reduced security. We call this...

Canonical
26 September 2017

Canonical
19 September 2017

Webinar: OpenStack Pike is here, what’s new?

Article Cloud and server

Sign up for our new webinar about the Canonical OpenStack Pike release. Join us to learn about the new features and how to upgrade from Ocata to Pike using OpenStack Charms.  

Canonical
19 September 2017

Mark Baker
18 July 2017

How modelling helps you avoid getting a stuck OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Lego model of an Airbus A380-800. Airbus run OpenStack A “StuckStack” is a deployment of OpenStack that usually, for technical but sometimes business reasons, is unable to be upgraded without significant disruption, time and expense. In the last post on this topic we discussed how many of these clouds became stuck and...

Mark Baker
18 July 2017

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
28 June 2017

Webinar: How to upgrade your OpenStack cloud easily, without downtime

Article Cloud and server

Live webinar It has become commonplace to see some OpenStack users choose to remain on old unsupported versions of OpenStack, forgoing new features and security updates rather than face the disruption, stress and complexity of upgrading. At Canonical we call this a StuckStack, a cloud that cannot or will not be...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
28 June 2017

Mark Baker
28 June 2017

Stuck Stacks, the 7 year itch and the DevOps dilemma

Article Cloud and server

  7 years in, where do we go from here? It is 7 years since OpenStack came into being. 7 short years comprised of long days and late nights bringing it all together to the point that global businesses such as Walmart, AT&T and Bloomberg are now running on OpenStack. Whilst most OpenStack implementations started

Mark Baker
28 June 2017