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The OpenStack community’s latest release, 2025.1 Epoxy, marks an important milestone in the project’s evolution. With the release of OpenStack Epoxy, the project continues to improve its capabilities, positioning itself as a more viable alternative to proprietary solutions like VMware. Packed with a range of new features, security enhancements, and hardware enablement improvements, Epoxy is… Read more »

The last fifteen years of OpenStack’s success is not just about the technology—it’s about the incredible global community that has fueled its growth. Thousands of developers, operators, and users have contributed to its evolution, ensuring that OpenStack remains a robust, scalable, and flexible solution for modern cloud needs. From large enterprises to startups and academic… Read more »

Continually supported by one of the most active open source project communities, OpenStack demand surged in 2024, driven by several global trends: digital sovereignty, licensing changes, and AI requirements redefining infrastructure. While these trends are expected to continue well into 2025, Allison Price, VP of marketing and community at the OpenInfra Foundation, worked with the… Read more »

The Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is held virtually twice a year and allows OpenInfra community groups and adjacent open source community project teams to meet virtually, exchange ideas and get work done in a productive, low-key setting. Last month, several OpenStack teams participated in the second PTG of the year alongside other OpenInfra projects and… Read more »

The 10th iteration of the OpenStack User Survey highlights expanding footprint of OpenStack clouds, reinforcing architecture trends and introducing new usage patterns   Over the past 10 years, over 2,200 organizations have voluntarily contributed OpenStack usage data and architecture details, across more than 4,000 deployments as well as feedback for the upstream community to improve the… Read more »

Contributing to OpenStack and joining the community is one of my proudest accomplishments, hands down. In fact, I actually have a skirt printed with lines of code showing the state of OpenStack (projects.yaml) from the day my first patch landed in Cinder.  But it’s definitely not just me that has made OpenStack into one of… Read more »

I’m an OpenStack Operator going to the PTG, where should I go?  PTGs aren’t just for OpenInfra developers! The discussions need perspectives from a broader group to make the event successful. This includes operators who are running OpenInfra projects in production (Public and Private Cloud, Research, etc), plan to run a project in the future,… Read more »

We’re excited to announce that Virtuozzo is now part of the OpenStack Marketplace – and even better, our US cloud partner Sharktech has joined too. The OpenStack Marketplace has a simple goal: to make it easy to find cloud services and technologies that help you leverage the awesome open-source OpenStack framework. It’s a natural home… Read more »

If you’re an OpenStack operator, you should check out my previous blog post about why you should attend the upcoming Project Teams Gathering (PTG). In an effort to help OpenStack operators get the most out of a PTG, we surveyed some project team leads (PTLs)  about the operator engagement they would most like to see. First up,… Read more »