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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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

A total of 1,518 unique change authors approved more than 47,500 changes and published two major releases, code named Stein and Train (due to our undying love of Trains). We started to work on Ussuri, our next release, to be delivered in 2020. In 2018, we introduced the “Extended Maintenance” concept, a period on which… Read more »

Although the OpenStack design events have changed, developers and operators still have a critical perspective to bring to the OpenStack Summits. At the PTG, a common whisper heard in the hallways was, “I really want to be at the Summit, but my [boss/HR/approver] doesn’t understand why I should be there.” To help you out, we… Read more »