OpenStack on Kubernetes: Ist OpenStack – Kubernetes eine Ergänzung oder Konkurrenz?

In the first few years, the focus was very much on feature development and stabilizing the platform, which was important for the broad acceptance of the platform. Kubernetes and the focus on containerization also led to a reorientation of OpenStack. However, there is still a strong interest in OpenStack. This is mainly due to the fact that the fundamental problem of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has not disappeared. And OpenStack, as the only independent and stable open infrastructure platform, addresses this use case particularly well. It has also dedicated itself to the complex task of providing the infrastructure with an API. This is made available in a multi-tenant system, i.e. multi-client capable. Other technologies such as Kubernetes have not faced this challenge, even though it would be much closer to the workload. Kubernetes also struggles with areas of application such as multi-tenancy or workload isolation. Kubernetes, on the other hand, is much better suited for API integration to increase productivity because it is much more workload-centric. When Kubernetes is installed on OpenStack, it solves both the problem of multi-tenancy and also provides workload isolation.