OpenStack is less a stack and more a collection of components that may, if glued together properly, work as something vaguely resembling infrastructure orchestration.

Its flexibility and desired modularity are its weaknesses. OpenStack means something different to everyone you talk to. I believe this is a direct consequence of its governance model, and lack of a benevolent dictator for life. It's decision-by-committee hell. Jason alludes to this:

> “You have a process that’s like governance, governance, governance, governance, governance. Run VMs, run VMs, run VMs. And what the process needs to be about it accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility, accessibility. Platform features, platform features, platform features, platform features.”

I, too, expect the steam to run out. Of course, I thought that the first time I had the misfortune of working with it.