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Inside Open Infrastructure: May 2025

By Allison Price on 05/28/2025

Bridging the Gap between Community & Contributing Organizations

Open source foundations play an important role in the ecosystem through crucial services, like trademark management, marketing and events they provide to the communities they support. Community management is another critical function, which often doesn't get as much visibility as it deserves.

Community management ensures that communities function efficiently, remain sustainable over time and are accessible to anyone who decides to invest their time and resources into the project. Getting involved in open source projects can be challenging, especially in case of large, more complex ones like OpenStack. OpenInfra community managers have been working with the community, including active contributors, maintainers and users to better understand their experience and identify challenges and bottlenecks to improve. This effort is called ‘Bridging the Gap,' and it targets to further improve the OpenStack community’s accessibility to individuals and organizations who are looking into getting more deeply involved, but need help to take next steps towards more substantial contributions. At the same time, this effort is also set out to improve the maintainer experience within the project, to increase bandwidth and avoid burnout.

If you are an active contributor or maintainer to the project, make sure to fill out the OpenStack surveys that were distributed when the OpenStack Epoxy release came out, and provide feedback about your experience during that most recent release cycle. Your insights will help OpenInfra community managers to provide better support and more informed guidance to contributors on how to improve processes, workflows and documentation and improve the contributor experience for new and established contributors alike.

OpenInfra Foundation News

  • The OpenInfra Foundation is thrilled to announce our newest Platinum Member, Cachengo! Cachengo will work closely with the global OpenInfra community to accelerate the adoption of open source infrastructure technologies for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and edge-native applications.
  • The OpenInfra Member VMware Migration Working Group has completed the VMware to OpenStack Migration Guide. Look for the release on June 18th!
  • The OpenInfra Member OpenInfra AI Working Group held their first meeting featuring a show-and-tell from OpenInfra Foundation Silver Member FPT Smart Cloud. Learn more here.
  • If you’re interested in participating members-only opportunities such as VMware to OpenStack Migration Working Group or OpenInfra AI Working Group, check out the recent PTG recap and consider membership of the OpenInfra Foundation. Contact Jimmy McArthur today to find out more!

OpenInfra Summit Europe

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

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

  • OpenStack is preparing to replace its use of the OpenInfra Individual Contributor License Agreement with the more standard Developer Certificate of Origin starting on July 1, 2025. Contributors are encouraged to start adding “Signed-Off-By” footers to their commit messages before that date in preparation (typically with git commit’s “-s” command-line option or by setting equivalent persistent configuration). See the proposed Technical Committee resolution for details.

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

  • The new KataContainers 3.17.0 release is now available!
  • The Kata Containers Architecture Committee election is now completed, congratulations to the new and returning members!
  • 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!

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

  • The StarlingX Technical Steering Committee election is now completed, congratulations to the new and returning members!
  • If you’re evaluating or using StarlingX, please take a few minutes to fill out the User Survey and provide feedback to the community!

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

  • Zuul 12.0.0 has been released. Read the announcement for important upgrade details and information about new features.

OpenInfra University Partnership Program

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  

OpenInfra Days Asia Roadshow

OpenInfra User Group Colombia at Kubernetes Community Day 

  • 29 August | Bogotá Colombia | Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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