OpenStack 主力公司 Mirantis 公开承认 OpenStack 衰败，转投 Kubernetes 阵营。这是一个发人深思的帖子：Kubernetes 是否会重复 OpenStack 的错误？当前看来 Kubernetes 已经是大势所趋，Mesosphere，Cloud Foundry 都转入了 Kubernetes 阵营，国内的容器云也大多转向。
Mirantis 成立于2011年1月，是一家OpenStack 服务商，主要是致力于为企业提供开发及管理云基础架构服务所需平台的开源项目，并于2013年10月宣布推出自己的OpenStack发行版，与Red Hat，Hewlett-Packard等发行版本正面竞争。作为OpenStack 项目的创始公司之一，Mirantis 已经开发超过 30 个 OpenStack 部署项目。
今日，互联网资讯博主jolestar在微博上发表评论，认为 Kubernetes 是否重蹈覆辙关键在于上面的应用生态是否形成。一旦应用生态形成，vendor 是不敢擅自修改 API 导致兼容性问题的，正如 Android，虽然各家的界面改的五花八门，面对应用的 API 基本都是兼容的。服务器端的开发者一直在期待一个像 Android 这样的统一应用运行环境，希望 Kubernetes 和容器这次能不孚众望。
以下为 Mirantis 博客原文：
Is Kubernetes Repeating OpenStack’s Mistakes?
Remember the rise of OpenStack? First there was Amazon and cloud. And then VMware said that cloud can also be private. And then Eucalyptus and CloudStack said that private cloud should be open. And then came Rackspace with OpenStack and said that private cloud should be ever pluggable and flexible. And all the vendors cheered! (And yes, that includes Mirantis). All hail OpenStack, protector of DIY private cloud and conqueror of Amazon!
But in the end few were able to find refuge from AWS through OpenStack. So everybody ran to find new cover. Today that new cover is starting to look a lot like Containers-as-a-Service (aka unstructured PaaS) propelled forward by Google and Kubernetes. We are effectively observing Cloud_Opinion’s law coming in effect: “Every vendor that can’t compete in Cloud chooses hybrid as their strategy.”
Multi-cloud is the new private. Kubernetes is the new OpenStack. But is there an opportunity to learn from the past and do it better this time around? So far, at least some of the parallels are concerning. Let’s examine them…
Before OpenStack there was Eucalyptus and CloudStack. Both were opinionated implementations of a private cloud reference architecture. Their opinionated nature stifled broad customer adoption, but things were chugging along. Then came OpenStack, which played the unopinionated DIY card and the following happened:
Fast forward to today. There is Cloud Foundry and there is OpenShift. Like Eucalyptus and CloudStack, both are opinionated. So things are chugging along, but neither is a runaway success. Both are swimming against the strong current of enterprises’ desire to DIY.
Along comes a Kubernetes-fueled wave of multi-cloud CaaS and, sure enough, unopinionated DIY wins:
资料参考链接：
https://www.mirantis.com/blog/is-kubernetes-repeating-openstacks-mistakes/
http://weibo.com/jolestar?refer_flag=1005055013_&is_all=1
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