That’s a wrap! Our most recent virtual Project Team Gathering (PTG) ran from April 4th to 8th. What is hopefully our last virtual PTG for a while ended on a high note with lots of productive conversations. The PTG hosted a variety of Open Infrastructure Foundation teams and projects from OpenStack and StarlingX to the… Read more »
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2021 OpenInfra Annual Report: Large Scale SIG

The OpenInfra Foundation annual report for 2021 is now live, including sections on open infrastructure growth, all OpenInfra projects, Foundation updates, SIG and WG updates, and more.
OpenStack’s 24th Release, Xena, Wields Powerful Hardware Support, Project Integration to Strengthen Open Infrastructure for Cloud-Native Applications
The latest release occurs as the 2021 User Survey reveals significant growth in OpenStack deployments ranging from hundreds of cores to six million cores; Over 100 new OpenStack clouds have been built, growing the total number of cores under OpenStack management to more than 25,000,000 cores The OpenStack community today released Xena, the 24th version… Read more »
Superuser Awards Winners: How Their OpenStack Deployments Continue to Grow, Evolve
Since the Paris Summit in 2014, the OpenInfra Foundation has hosted our annual Superuser Awards to recognize organizations that have used open infrastructure to meaningfully improve their business while contributing back to the community. These organizations have previously won the Superuser Awards and shared how their deployments have grown and evolved on a recent episode of OpenInfra… Read more »
Containers in OpenStack Clouds: How to Keep the Applications Safe and Healthy
Let’s get a closer look at two giant open-source technologies – OpenStack and Kubernetes, how they work together and accomplish each other bringing more benefits to service consumers.
Share your OpenStack Feedback in the Annual User Survey
The OpenStack User Survey is open! This is your annual opportunity to provide anonymous feedback to the upstream community, so the developers can better understand OpenStack environments and software requirements. Your anonymized feedback is shared with the project teams so we can improve how the community and project provide value to you. The survey will… Read more »
The OpenStack community IRC network moved to OFTC
The OpenStack community uses IRC as one of the communication channels for development activities. IRC can run on many different networks, and we have used Freenode as the IRC network since the beginning. Recently, there was a change in ownership, organization structure, and policy on Freenode. A lot of discussions occurred on social media, this… Read more »
Introducing On-Demand OpenStack Private Clouds and Initial Use Cases
InMotion Hosting has recently brought to market an automated deployment of OpenStack and Ceph that we sell as on-demand Private Cloud and as part of our Infrastructure as a Service. We believe that making OpenStack more accessible is critical to the health of the OpenStack community as it will allow smaller teams a low-risk and… Read more »
As Edge Applications Multiply, OpenInfra Community Delivers StarlingX 5.0, Offering Cloud Infrastructure Stack for 5G, IoT
Everything carriers and enterprises need to deploy edge clouds for 5G, IoT is in open source StarlingX 5.0, available today; new features enhance security, operability and automation. AUSTIN, Texas—June 2, 2021—StarlingX—the open source edge computing and IoT cloud platform optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications—is available in its 5.0 release today. StarlingX combines Ceph, OpenStack,… Read more »
Xena vPTG Summaries
The OpenStack community had its third virtual Project Teams Gathering (PTG) in late April. Over 500 individuals and 49 teams across the globe met and collaborated at the vPTG. Since the event concluded, several of those teams have posted summaries of the discussions they have had and the decisions that were made during the PTG…. Read more »