OneOps – Open-source cloud ops platform from Walmart

&quot;Accelerating product delivery in the Digital Economy through Continuous Application Lifecycle Management of Cloud-based Workload, backed by @WalmartLabs&quot;<p>I think you could work on that elevator pitch a little - it seems like it&#x27;s been workshopped by a committee, and doesn&#x27;t really tell me anything.

So walmart thought this startup was worth buying to manage all their different applications running in different clouds. Fast forward a couple years and they&#x27;ve now open sourced the entire product. That&#x27;s pretty cool.

I&#x27;ve been reading <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;</a> to try and understand what it is. I still have zero idea...

The chef code that deploys all the apps is pretty old skool, copy pasta&#x27;d from opensource cookbooks in alot of places, will never pass food critic or rubocop, and has no tests. I wouldn&#x27;t really want to run that code on anything.

Struggling to wade through the thicket of buzzwords. What is this? Looks a bit like OpenShift or something?

It&#x27;s great to see established companies experiment with OSS. The issue I see is that they make their projects go live&#x2F;public a little bit late to be usable &#x27;as is&#x27;. By the time they open source their tooling, the stack maybe out of synch with the latest and greatest. Just the fact OneOps is using nagios checks for monitoring tells you a lot.

This looks pretty complicated&#x2F;heavy based on <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;</a><p>Has anyone seen anything talking about resource requirements for deploying this? The fact that Cassandra, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL are all involved plus much more makes me think the requirements must be quite high.<p>Edit: nevermind <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;prerequisites&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;prerequisites&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m not sure my brain is up to wading through the site trying to figure out <i>what</i> this is. Can someone break this down into it&#x27;s purpose and components? Is it a code deployment system, container manager, open-stack, chef&#x2F;puppet&#x2F;fabric?<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;#oneops-system-architecture" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.github.io&#x2F;admin&#x2F;key-concepts&#x2F;#oneops-system-ar...</a><p>Side note, every-time I see an enterprise message bus, I throw up in my mouth a little.

I&#x27;m kinda surprised by this. My impression was that Walmart Labs had great success in deploying a pure-openstack private cloud in record time which was immense in scale. Why would they want to deploy to other clouds?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstack.org&#x2F;summit&#x2F;vancouver-2015&#x2F;summit-videos&#x2F;presentation&#x2F;walmart-and-039s-cloud-journey" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openstack.org&#x2F;summit&#x2F;vancouver-2015&#x2F;summit-video...</a>

Isn&#x27;t labs just another way to say we are better and elite than the rest of the engineers who are working on run the business products?

Are engineers the target audience or PHBs?<p>They should have put up a blog post with an overview like this one: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;global-continuous-delivery-with.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techblog.netflix.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;global-continuous-delive...</a>

I think it&#x27;s great that Walmart is posting OS libs, but this page design could use some TLC.

&quot;OneOps Open-Source PaaS now available!&quot; January 25th, 2016 says their press section (scroll down): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.com&#x2F;about.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;oneops.com&#x2F;about.html</a>

This looks like oneopsmanship ..

it&#x27;s looks like just control panel for all your clouds. If you have only aws, i don&#x27;t see any profit of using this.

Is this what @joshu has been working on?

Java&#x2F;Tomcat<p>Why, for the love of God, why?

No Python support. Moving on.

so is this is a tool like Ansible without using Python modules and taking the GUI driven approach?

Check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;containership.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;containership.io</a> - Also open source and works in any data center.<p>Edit: Full disclosure, I am the founder of ContainerShip.