OpenStack Looks to Help Define the Future of Open Infrastructure

The OpenStack Foundation is continuing to grow its open-source efforts, including confirming new top-level projects and expanding its Ironic bare metal program, as part of the kickoff for the Open Infrastructure Summit.The Kata Containers secure container effort and the Zuul Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) projects have now been confirmed as top-level projects at the OpenStack Foundation, joining the group's namesake OpenStack cloud. While not yet a top-level project, the Airship lifecycle management project is also celebrating a major milestone with its 1.0 release.Additionally, the OpenStack Foundation is promoting its Ironic bare metal program as a way for organizations to deploy cloud resources on physical hardware.The Open Infrastructure Summit runs April 29-May 1 in Denver and is the first OpenStack event to officially carry that name, as an evolution of the former OpenStack Summit."In a modern cloud, you have more thanOpenStack almost every time," Mark Collier, chief operating officer of the OpenStack Foundation, told eWEEK. "If the point is to run your infrastructure as open-source, and we want to have an event about it, then the event really should probably have a name that is a little bit broader. So that's why we renamed it."At the final OpenStack Summit event, which was held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2018, the open-source organization discussed its intentions to rename its flagship event as part of a broader focus on open infrastructure and not just the core OpenStack cloud platform. The core OpenStack platform was created in 2011 as a joint effort between Rackspace and NASA and has steadily grown in the years since. The Open Infrastructure Summit follows the OpenStack Stein release that became generally available on April 10.