Products · Product
OpenStack
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2013–2025), in 17 threads.
People raised many different problems with OpenStack, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 22 complaints
- Very powerful but user-hostile to use, per the commenter's experience2025-09-08
- Upgrades are so huge that teams tear down and rebuild the whole setup2024-11-07
- Hard to use, brittle, and documentation out of date2022-10-20
- Too difficult to install and hard to understand from the documentation2022-10-20
- Hard to debug and set up because many components each need separate databases and accounts2022-10-20
- Installation docs assume RPM distros, untested steps, and fragmented guides per component2021-12-14
- Author could not get a minimal OpenStack test instance to deploy, even as an experienced Linux user2020-07-08
- Lacks documented design patterns, so architects struggle with upfront design choices2019-03-03
- Software seemed badly designed, unreliable, poorly documented, and hard to use2019-03-03
- Extremely complex, nearly impossible to deploy yourself without a distro2018-12-27
- APIs are awkward to use2018-02-02
- Teams and consultancies couldn't figure out how to use OpenStack, even experienced sysadmins2017-04-17
- Official documentation is often very confusing and hard to navigate2017-04-17
- Documentation is terrible and the user interface is awkward and clunky2016-04-29
- Evacuate button does not behave as users expect, forcing manual per-VM migration via command line2016-02-10
- Stopping or resizing VMs sometimes fails, leaving the VM unusable2015-11-27
- Hard to set up and operate at the infrastructure layers compared to containers2015-11-22
- Poor docs, failing example code, and obtuse error messages make it hard to learn2015-03-25
- Neutron data model was terrible, hard to scale and perform2015-01-19
- Commenter can't find which streaming service carries the summit content2014-05-12
- Took over 50 clicks and two hours to find a runnable test stack2014-05-12
- Was borderline unusable outside the developer standalone node setup2013-03-27