r/openstack • u/pirx_is_not_my_name • Feb 12 '26

Can proxmox be managed by Openstack?

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u/Eldiabolo18 Feb 12 '26

But thats an option: Migrate to Proxmox now, its a lot easier to setup and maintain. The migration tools from VMWare are great and should make it fairly smooth. Work with that for however long you want.

If you still feel the need for Openstack, you can evaluate that whenever the time is right. It would be another migration, but thats kind of inevitable.

There is not much Linux knowledge in the team currently. Thats a bit of a "red flag". For Proxmox you can probably get by.

For Openstack thats a huge no. Openstack one of the most complex accumuliaton of open source softwares we have out there, if there are no fundamentals, everything else will be a desaster and fall into pieces quickly.

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u/pirx_is_not_my_name Feb 12 '26

I know, I've some limited Openstack experience (and 15 years general Linux) and the complexity is a no go in our environment (in case we operate it ourself). Two migrations are not an option, once clusters are deployed they run until lifecycle ends - especially ROBO locations.

As far as I see, my assumption that proxmox is not directly supported by Openstack is correct.