<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Jeff Frontz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeff.frontz@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeff.frontz@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Tom Hanlon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tom@functionalmedia.com" target="_blank">tom@functionalmedia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have run openstack on openstack. For training we launch a rackspace VM, and install openstack on that VM and launch instances inside that host. </blockquote></div><br></span>I think openstack is just another "container" approach, no? I don't think you can bring up an entirely new distro (with different kernel) on top, can you?</div></div>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No.. Openstack is more like an open source EC2, AMI situation. </div><div>See here for available images, and of course you can build your own. </div><div><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/">http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>So you can launch debian, redhat, windows etc. </div><div><br></div><div>I believe it has begun to add features to control deploy and manage containers. Containers however were not the original focus. An open source competitor to AWS is probably an accurate description of the project. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Tom</div><div> </div></div></div></div>