Governance
The “Four Opens”: open source, open design, open development, open community. A Technical Committee, a PTL per project.
OpenKeel: the sovereign French Cloud solution of the inherent group, with a European reach Discover inherent
The project
Fifteen years of history, a large community, a heavy code base.
Launched by Rackspace and NASA: Swift and Nova
OpenStack Foundation created
Peak activity: contributors, companies, Summits
The foundation becomes the OpenInfra Foundation
End of alphabetical names: series 2023.1, 2023.2…
OpenInfra joins the Linux Foundation
Current series, OpenKeel's target
A release every six months since 2010; each service keeps its API compatible from one release to the next.
The “Four Opens”: open source, open design, open development, open community. A Technical Committee, a PTL per project.
OpenDev: Gerrit review, Zuul CI, devstack and Tempest to test every change.
Telecom operators, public and private clouds, research: very large fleets in production.
After the 2015-2016 peak, vendors withdrew; fewer contributors for as much code.
OpenKeel's starting point: keep the contracts (API, database, messages) that give the ecosystem its value, and replace the implementation with Kubernetes-native Go.
Monkey-patched green threads, the move away from eventlet still in progress; GIL and limited performance.
Dozens of oslo libraries, clients and drivers to keep in step.
Hundreds of options per service, many of them unused.
Kolla, OpenStack-Ansible, TripleO (discontinued): the tooling weighs as much as the cloud.
Schema migrations, versioned RPCs, a strict upgrade order.
libvirt, OVS agents, iSCSI: a data plane reinvented next to Kubernetes.