[HN Gopher] Ubicloud - open, free and portable cloud
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Ubicloud - open, free and portable cloud
Author : dkgs1998
Score : 34 points
Date : 2023-08-16 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| elitan wrote:
| Is there a demo available?
| mdaniel wrote:
| https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud#how-is-this-different-t...
| was my immediate question, although they left off "and the
| license is different" but I guess that's implied
|
| As for the "as a managed service" part, I believe Open Metal
| (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35087879 ) is trying to
| fill in that gap with actual open source software
|
| I cannot speak to the "6 key services in GA form in the next two
| years" aspiration since I don't know what the other 3 are that
| you're going after in order to know how impactful they'll be
| bashy wrote:
| The thing you pay for with cloud servers is not having to do the
| up-keep of the host machine. They tend to have many more drives
| than you'd get with a bare metal server.
|
| I have many OVH and Hetzner servers (cloud and dedicated) but not
| sure I'd find a use for this.
| CharlesW wrote:
| > _The thing you pay for with cloud servers is not having to do
| the up-keep of the host machine._
|
| That's what you pay public cloud service providers for, but
| private clouds are considered to be a thing as well.
| https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/private-cloud/
| rafaelturk wrote:
| love this.. we've in the process of leaving the traditional cloud
| powered by microk8s
| Cantinflas wrote:
| >Available on GitHub under the Elastic v2 license.
|
| So... not open source?
| dal wrote:
| I hate the trend of these freemium faux FOSS poser projects
| that keep popping up.
| [deleted]
| lifty wrote:
| Do they pretend and mention it's open source? If not, I don't
| see a problem.
| zxwrt wrote:
| Yes.
|
| > ... An open source cloud that can run anywhere.
|
| > ... Open-source or managed for you. Available on GitHub
| under the Elastic v2 license.
|
| Taken from here: https://ubicloud.com/
| zxwrt wrote:
| Looks like another fauxpen source, yes.
| j1elo wrote:
| For once, someone got it right and didn't claim with bold,
| uppercase letters that it's an Open Source project, like it
| usually happens with a lot of HN entries of that topic. Lately,
| the relicense of some Sentry product to a non-OSS license that
| was wrongly called "Open Source" just because the source was
| shared. As deserved, these kinds of usages tend to receive a
| good amount of backlash due to wrongly using the term.
|
| But here, all is right, I don't see where anyone could base any
| complaint. Except for being entitled to instruct others about
| the license they should use for their own work, that is. I'd
| say they are walking the line with insisting on how "open" this
| solution is, but it doesn't really cross any line.
|
| They are missing a very strong 4th line in " _How is this
| different than OpenStack?_ " [1], though: OpenStack is Apache
| 2.0, aka. proper OSS, thus you can use or host it in whatever
| way you want, even use it to create an IaaS if you wanted. With
| UbiCloud, I didn't read the license, but probably not.
|
| [1]: https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud#how-is-this-
| different-t...
| unixhero wrote:
| They have an "open source" image right there on their front
| page
| cyphar wrote:
| It says OPEN SOURCE in bold uppercase letters on their web
| page...
| 38 wrote:
| normally I give "open source" comments like this the label they
| deserve, which is "troll". however in this case it seems
| justified:
|
| > You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license
| key functionality in the software, and you may not remove or
| obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by
| the license key.
|
| https://elastic.co/licensing/elastic-license
| revskill wrote:
| Interesting choice on Ruby. Why Ruby in first place ?
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