Rackspace, a managed cloud company, presents a whitepaper titled "Cloud Fleet Management: A New Set of Mental Models and Tooling." This document addresses the persistent struggles organizations face when managing, monitoring, and maintaining OpenStack private clouds, despite its status as a de facto standard. It highlights the complexities of achieving cloud scale operations and resilient application deployment. Rackspace's Cloud Fleet Management solution offers a modular design, connecting various inventory, monitoring, logging, and workflow services. Beyond tooling, it fosters a community for sharing known faults and remediation, leveraging global OpenStack operator experience to create a living runbook. The paper emphasizes Rackspace's extensive expertise, having run the world's largest

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