Exploring OpenStack at OpenInfra Summit Europe 2025

Mark your calendars for October 17–19, 2025, when the OpenInfra community converges on École Polytechnique in Paris‑Saclay for the much‑anticipated OpenInfra Summit Europe. The schedule was just published today, and among the open infrastructure focused tracks, OpenStack remains central—featuring in core presentations, Forum discussions, workshops, and keynotes. The OpenInfra Summit schedule is curated by experts… Read more »
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OpenStack Resurgence: How VMware’s Licensing Rugpull is Encouraging a Second Look

In the wake of Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware, the enterprise IT world found itself at a crossroads. Rapid, unexpected changes to VMware’s licensing model sent shockwaves through thousands of organizations, forcing a stark choice: stay and absorb dramatic cost increases—or seek out an alternative platform capable of handling mission-critical workloads. Enter OpenStack For many… Read more »
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Students of OpenStack: Meet Oria Weng!

Oria Weng is a third-year honors student studying computer science at Oregon State University, working at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL). What Open Infrastructure project are you working with, and what made you interested in that project, as opposed to some of the other options? What was the hardest part about getting… Read more »
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Students of OpenStack: Meet Boosung Kim!

As the academic year wraps up, seniors at Dickinson College have completed their capstone course, where they learned a lot during the past year, including new concepts, how OpenInfra works, working with the Swift core team, and we getting to attend the Project Teams Gathering (PTG). This year, James Nguyễn, Nathan Nguyễn, and Boosung Kim… Read more »
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OpenStack at the April 2025 PTG: All Things ‘Epoxy’ & ‘Flamingo’

The OpenInfra Project Team Gathering took place April 7 to 11, earlier this month. A variety of OpenStack teams, covering the basic OpenStack services, pop up working groups, among other more horizontal view teams met to have technical discussions throughout the week. Discussions ranged from ongoing feature work, to reviewing feedback on the most recent… Read more »
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OpenStack 2025.1 Epoxy: Strengthening OpenStack’s Position as a VMware Alternative and Enhancing Security and Hardware Enablement

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 »
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Celebrating 15 Years of OpenStack!

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 »
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OpenStack 2024 Community Progress & Highlights

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 »
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OpenStack Teams Advance 2025.1 Epoxy Plans at OpenInfra PTG

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 »
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OpenStack global footprint exceeds 45 million compute cores as users tackle common obstacles

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 »
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