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Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ubicloud aims to provide an open source alternative to AWS by offering core cloud computing services on affordable bare-metal servers.
The focus is currently on compute, PostgreSQL database service, networking capabilities, with plans to add block storage and Kubernetes-based container service.
Co-founders have experience with Citus Data and Azure, and the company recently raised a $16 million seed round.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Don't we already have OpenStack? Something, something OpenStack complicated, something, something. Sounds a bit like raison d'étre.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was just about to say, isn't this just OpenStack?

I don't even think OpenStack is needlessly complicated.
Yes, it is complicated, but who thinks operating a cloud environment the equivalent of AWS is trivial?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And OpenStack is a mature open source project, tried, true, used in all sorts of data centers large and small, supported by multiple vendors. I'd take it any day before 10 VC-funded guys' project. I mean good for them for skinning that cat and if it gains a real community, I might bite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

To gain real community people have to use it first if everyone waited like you there won't be any

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Openstack is an orchestration platform, but doesn't deal with the lower-level things directly like IAM, fabric management, resource federation...etc. It sounds like they want to release FOSS tools which do that work. The CoreOS team was actually going to do something similar before being acquired.