OpenInfra Summit Schedule: For the Community, by the Community

The OpenInfra Summit Europe is a community-driven event, made possible by the dedication and passion of volunteers from across the globe. This year, over 30 volunteers came together to shape every element of the OpenInfra Summit experience, from reviewing talks and building the schedule to creating speaker graphics, developing local tourism resources, and launching new community-focused initiatives like the New Contributor Showcase.

Today, we are highlighting the OpenInfra Summit Programming Committee. These contributors have spent countless hours curating the content that will be presented on stage, ensuring the agenda reflects the innovation, collaboration, and diversity of the global OpenInfra ecosystem. Their work has culminated in the official release of the OpenInfra Summit schedule, now live and featuring dozens of sessions that highlight the most exciting developments across open source infrastructure.

We’d like to specifically recognize Amy Marrich, who led the CFP review and schedule build process with thoughtfulness and precision. Her leadership helped guide the programming team through hundreds of submissions, resulting in a well-balanced and dynamic lineup of sessions that showcase the depth and breadth of the OpenInfra community.

From behind-the-scenes logistics to creative contributions, the work of these volunteers is what brings the OpenInfra Summit to life. We are incredibly grateful for their time, energy, and commitment to making the OpenInfra Summit Europe a world-class event.

MEET THE OPENINFRA PLANNING COMMITTEE

Register to attend the OpenInfra Summit before prices increase 2 July at 23:59 PST

OpenInfra Foundation News

• The OpenInfra Foundation has officially joined the Linux Foundation, creating unprecedented alignment in open source infrastructure! For the first time, open source standards for operating systems (Linux), cloud infrastructure (OpenStack), and containers (Kubernetes) are all under the same collaborative umbrella. This move combines resources while preserving OpenInfra's community-driven approach, positioning us to accelerate innovation in AI-ready infrastructure and cross-project collaboration.
• The Linux Foundation has appointed Jonathan Bryce as Executive Director, Cloud & Infrastructure and Chris Aniszczyk as CTO, Cloud & Infrastructure, to oversee major open source initiatives including OpenInfra and CNCF. Jonathan will serve as executive director of both CNCF and the OpenInfra Foundation, establishing a stronger collaborative bond across the two foundations and driving strategic alignment throughout the broader open source ecosystem.
• The OpenInfra Member VMware Migration Working Group published a comprehensive VMware to OpenStack Migration Guide this month, The Future of Virtualization: Modernizing Your Data Center with OpenStack
• If you’re interested in joining this global open source collaboration, consider membership of the OpenInfra Foundation. Contact Jimmy McArthur today to find out more!
• The next Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is scheduled for October 27-31, 2025. The OpenInfra PTG team survey signup is live! If your team is interested in participating in the PTG, please fill out the team survey here. 

OpenInfra Summit Europe

17-19 October | Paris-Saclay, France | École Polytechnique Campus

• The Schedule is live! 
• Register Now | Prices double on 2 July at 23:59 PT
• Submit a Forum Discussion | The deadline is 8 July at 23:59 PT
• Apply for the New Contributor Showcase | The deadline is 11 August at 23:59 PT
• Become a Sponsor | The deadline is 26 September at 23:59 PT
• Apply for Travel Support | The deadline is 30 July at 23:59 PT

Have questions? Email [email protected] 

Nominations for the 2025 Superuser Awards are currently open! If you know of an organization (even your own!) who sets a high bar for open source infrastructure innovation, nominate them to be recognized by the global community! Nominations will close 2 September at 23:59 PT. The winner will be announced at the OpenInfra Summit Europe on Friday, 17 October.

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

• As part of the VMware Migration Guide, several organizations shared case studies on successfully migrating to OpenStack including a customer of Huawei's, Nebul with Mirantis, a Korean government owned company with Okestro, and Boost Mobile with Wind River.

• Some highlights among the 80+ OpenStack sessions on the OpenInfra Summit schedule include:

  • From Zero to Code - How to get started in OpenStack
  • Multi-Arch OpenStack in Production: ARM64/x86 Bare Metal and Hypervisors with Kolla-Ansible
  • Talking with Your Infrastructure: AI Agents for OpenStack and Kubernetes Infra
  • All aboard the Release Train: Lessons from our last 100 OpenStack upgrades
  • OpenStack at Scale: Operating a bare metal cloud for quant research

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs

• The community is switching to a new platform to schedule and organize weekly meetings, and has new dial-in information starting the week of June 23, 2025! Check out the new meeting calendar for details.

• If you’re evaluating or using Kata Containers, please take a few minutes to fill out the User Survey and provide feedback to the community!

• Check out the Kata Containers-related sessions on the OpenInfra Summit schedule:

  • Towards Secure Container Infrastructure on RISC-V: the Development from rust-vmm to Kata-Containers
  • Enabling Confidential Computing Throughout the Virtualization Stack
  • Enhancing Container Security with Kata Containers and eBPF at Ant Group
  • LLM Infrastructure Landscape and Trends: Insights from Open-Source Ecosystem Data
  • How Ant Group Achieves Data Security in LLM Inference with Kata-Based Confidential Computing
  • Next Generation Edge: Edge Computing Architectures for AI/ML Use Cases

OpenDev: Free software needs free tools

• Diskimage-builder 3.39.0 has been released. This release brings support for building CentOS Stream 10 and Rocky Linux 10 images.

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

• The community is switching to a new platform to schedule and organize weekly meetings, and has new dial-in information starting the week of June 30, 2025! Check out the new meeting calendar for details.

• If you’re evaluating or using StarlingX, please take a few minutes to fill out the User Survey and provide feedback to the community!

• Check out the StarlingX-related sessions on the OpenInfra Summit schedule:

  • Building Resilient Systems: Lessons from High Availability Architecture in StarlingX
  • StarlingX Edge Orchestration: Managing Critical Workloads at Scale
  • Transforming Telecom: Kubernetes in Radio Access Network Management
  • Next Generation Edge: Edge Computing Architectures for AI/ML Use Cases

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

• Zuul 12.1.0 has been released. This release adds OpenID Connect compatible workload federation. This allows Zuul to provide authentication tokens to jobs for services that trust Zuul as an identity provider. To learn more about this feature and further enhancements, read the release announcement.

• Check out the Zuul sessions on the OpenInfra Summit schedule:

  • How BMW Uses Zuul CI as the Standard Gating System
  • Building a Kubernetes Distribution for Workday using Zuul
  • Building OpenDev: A Zuul for Operations Story
  • So Long and Thanks For All the Nodes

OpenInfra University Partnership Program

• Oria Weng, student at Oregon State University and an intern in the Open Source Lab there, wrote up a blog post of her experience with the UPP and OpenStack! 

Work at a university and interested in getting a UPP setup at your educational institution? Fill out the interest survey!

Upcoming OpenInfra and Community Events

Celebrate OpenStack's 15th Birthday  

• 3 July: Bogota, CO
• Check out more upcoming celebrations!

OpenInfra Days Asia Roadshow

• 19 July | OpenInfra Day Indonesia
• 26 July | OpenInfra Day Vietnam
• 26 August | OpenInfra Day Korea
• July - September | Cloud Operator Days Tokyo
• 15 November | OpenInfra Day China
• And more!

OpenInfra Days Kenya 

• 6 September | Nairobi, Kenya | Learn More

More upcoming events!

• Cephlacon 
• Linux Foundation Europe Readshow 
• OpenInfra User Group Colombia at Kubernetes Community Day 
• OpenInfra User Group India - Virtual Meetup Series 2025 
• Find a User Group near you! 

For more information about OpenInfra community events, please contact [email protected].