Where do I begin?<\/p>\n
How about with this being perhaps the most overpriced tech book I have ever seen. At just under 70 pages, and a penny shy of $25, {{Deploying OpenStack}} by {{Ken Pepple}} exceeds the cost per page numbers I can remember from college. Wow.<\/p>\n
Thankfully, I did\u00a0NOT<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0pay for this book – I was able to borrow it from my local library<\/a>. I do feel sad, though, that anyone paid for this.<\/p>\n There are a couple nice diagrams wedged in the pages, but this is worse than a documentation dump from the various OpenStack<\/a> sites. This is a sad example of an {{O’Reilly}} book – one I would never have dared think would have made it past their editor board, let alone be published for such an outrageous price.<\/p>\n There are also several amusing typos – including claiming that the test server he used for one deployment had a 1.4 Mhz CPU: Athlons were never measured below 600 Mhz that I can recall, and certainly the dual-core system he talked about should have been in Ghz.<\/p>\n At best, this is a published, overly-long blog post. At worst, it’s a pointless display of the hype surrounding “{{Cloud}}” – instead of giving lots of useful information, it’s stuck at the bare basics of the process, and frozen in time from more than a year ago! Given the rate of change in toolsets like this, there needs to not only be a lot more content in any printed work related to the technology, but also a planned cycle of releasing new editions – likely on the order of every year (or more) … especially in the early stages of a project\/product.<\/p>\n Do yourself a\u00a0HUGE<\/em> favor: skip this book, and read the online documentation<\/a> instead. You’ll be very glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where do I begin? How about with this being perhaps the most overpriced tech book I have ever seen. At just under 70 pages, and a penny shy of $25, {{Deploying OpenStack}} by {{Ken Pepple}} exceeds the cost per page numbers I can remember from college. Wow. Thankfully, I did\u00a0NOT\u00a0pay for this book – I …
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