Rackspace and NASA launched in 2010 a project called OpenStack, whose objective was to become an open source option to execute an AWS cloud within private data centers. Subsequently, both companies transferred the project to the OpenStack Foundation and finally was renamed as Open Infrastructure Foundation.
Currently, with the controversy around Broadcom’s license changes in VMware offers, Openstack has recovered its boom since companies are looking for an alternative. Maybe for it and to take advantage of the moment, from the Foundation They have announced plans to become part of the Linux Foundationthe gigantic non -profit organization that hosts hundreds of open source projects under her umbrella.
With this, three of the open source projects larger and active in the world (Linux, Kubernetes and Openstack) will be under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. It should be noted that the Openinfra Foundation also houses other projects in addition to OpenStack. Among them include Kata Containers to create safer software containers, the Airship software life cycle management tool, the CI/CD Zuul platform and the computer platform in the EDGE, Starlingx.
Good news for the Open Source world
The relationship between the Openinfra/OpenStack Foundation and, especially, the CNCF of the Linux Foundation, has had its ups and downs. This was due, in part, to the rapid increase in the popularity of Kubernetes, which promoted the success of the CNCF as a foundation and led to OpenStack was considered an inherited technology. However, today the two organizations They have returned to work more closely and the Union to Linux Foundation is a sample As argues Jonathan Bryce, CEO of Openinfra.
«The data centers infrastructure market is experiencing a fundamental reinvention, driven by the huge demands of AI, as well as by migration to virtualization and digital sovereignty. Openinfra is already closely linked to many of the Linux Foundation projects that support this reinvention, and it is the perfect time to combine resources and take advantage of the work of our organizations to boost this market of one billion dollars. Together with the Linux Foundation, we can collaborate more closely to develop, implement and forge a future where the open source continues to triumph ».
Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, has also welcomed: “The rich history of association and the closely linked communities of the two organizations will promote us in our shared mission to defend and promote the power and promise of the open source”.
The objective is that the Openinfra Foundation and its star project, OpenStack, Opere within the Linux Foundation like any other foundation open source and under the same umbrella.
