I like its integration with GitLab and its simplicity. OpenStack has a lot of third-party libraries that it uses.

There are a lot of things you can do depending on what you want to, you know, handle, whether it's your pipeline or whether it's some third-party libraries that you use in your application to make sure that they're all taken well on your live site, the kind of configuration you can do from within OpenStack and Jenkins is very extensive.

The product can enhance the physical capacity for delivering 15 computers. It can be extended to 150. The product has enabled virtualization wherein people can have their OpEx go down.

There are many services that can be directly used which are not available in VMware. These include data analytics solutions and services, services specific to big data, and Container as a Service. Therefore, there are many additional services which are available in Rackspace OpenStack. VMware probably does not have as many services as Rackspace OpenStack does.

There are always new improvements being made to different aspects of Rackspace OpenStack.

Another advantage of Rackspace OpenStack is its flexibility. we can run the cloud on our commodity servers, which brings in more flexibility and customization options. This includes being able to customize the architecture to our specific needs.

Apart from the main features, I really appreciate OpenStack's microservices architecture and its flexibility for deployment with different tools. Scaling up and down is easy, and the support for authentication, policies, encryption, and other features is commendable.       

The enterprise that I work with already uses OpenStack. They demanded I learn it and I was able to find classes online to get started. In general, OpenStack is more useful in the public, in the world, instead of other tools that are used to implement private clouds.

The initial setup isn't too difficult. 

It's scalable. 

The stability is excellent. 

You do not have to pay anything to use it. 

Networking (Networks, CDN) and Object Storage (CDN)

The most valuable feature is the customization. With the customization you can really give the customers what they want.

Image storage with Akamai. OpenStack allowed for mass uploading of images to Akamai cloud services. It also allowed for product administration with images.