Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which aims to be an open source option for private data centers to run AWS-style clouds internally. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which firmly passed through its many ups and downs. Currently, with the controversy over VMware products by Broadcom’s license change, OpenStack is Back to the riseas businesses look for alternatives.
today, Open Infrastructure Foundation (This is OpenStack Foundation Rename After OpenStack Project lost some momentum, itself to 2021) Announce It plans to become part of the Linux Foundation – a giant open source nonprofit, which is also home to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Pytorch, OpenSearch, RISC-V, Linux, Linux and dozens of other foundations.
In this way, the world’s three largest and most active open source projects (Linux, Kubernetes and OpenStack) now belong to the Linux Foundation Foundation umbrella. It is worth noting that the Openinfra Foundation also hosts many other projects. These include Kata container projects for building safer software containers, software lifecycle management tool, CI/CD platform Zuul, and Edge Computing Platform Starlingx.
Over the years, the relationship between the Openinfra/OpenStack Foundation (particularly the Linux Foundation’s CNCF) also has its UPS and UPS and fall. This was driven by the rapid popularity of Kubernetes, which drove the success of CNCF as a foundation and regarded OpenStack as a traditional technology.
However, today, both organizations have passed Open infrastructure blueprint.
“The data center infrastructure market is undergoing a fundamental reshaping, which is a huge requirement for AI and driven by virtualized immigration and digital sovereignty,” said Jonathan Bryce, longtime executive director of Openinfra Foundation. “The OpenInfra Foundation has been closely aligned with many of the projects the Linux Foundation supports this reshaping, and the timing is perfect for combining resources and building our organization’s work in driving this trillion-dollar market with Linux Together, we can work closer and collaborate on developing, deploying and shaping the ever-winning future of open source.”
Meanwhile, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, noted that the two organizations’ “long partnership and close-knit community history will drive our shared mission to advocate and promote open source power and commitment.”
The idea here is that once this process is done, the OpenInfra Foundation will run inside the Linux Foundation, just like any other open source foundation under the same umbrella. What this means for the staffing of the Openinfra Foundation.
“The Open Foundation enters 2025 with strong momentum: the number of member organizations has increased by 15%, including two new Platinum members,” said Julia Kreger, chairman of the Openinfra Board. “Our projects are also thriving, with rapid growth in adoption of open spaces and increased adoption of Openinfra projects such as Kata containers, Starlingx and Zuul. Combining our global community (110,000 people) to the Linux Foundation, leverages the power of open source and lays the foundation for ongoing success as we build the infrastructure that follows.”
This marks my last post on TechCrunch. Thanks to all the fish for so long.
