OpenInfra forms new AI Policy Working Group

The OpenInfra Foundation has launched a new AI Policy Working Group to help align open source community needs with how AI is already reshaping software development. Across OpenInfra projects, contributors are increasingly using AI tools in their day-to-day work, and AI-related regulation is showing up across more jurisdictions. This work is critical: the decisions we make now about how AI fits into our projects will shape contribution practices, governance, and compliance for years to come. The group will focus on understanding the current state of AI policy across OpenInfra projects, tracking industry developments, developing guidance that accommodates agentic workflows while preserving human accountability for contributions, and building recommendations that can evolve as the technology does.

This effort needs broad community input to succeed; your perspective matters. The Working Group meets the third Wednesday of every month at 18:00 UTC, with the agenda and meeting details available in this etherpad. You can also join the conversation via the public mailing list. We'd love to have you at the table as we shape how OpenInfra projects respond to one of the most significant shifts in open source development today.

OpenInfra Foundation News

• The OpenInfra Digital Sovereignty Working Group has been hard at work. Many new content pieces are in the pipeline, including case studies, a comparison guide between proprietary clouds vs OpenStack clouds, and a guide to OpenInfra best practices. The landing page will be getting updates soon, so stay tuned. In the meantime, check out this case study from dNation with KInIT
• The University Partnership Program (UPP) is a global initiative dedicated to fostering collaboration between the OpenInfra Foundation and academic institutions. By engaging students in open source development, the program aims to build a robust pipeline of young professionals for the open source infrastructure ecosystem. Joses De Carlos, a student at Valencia College (OpenInfra Associate Member), has wrapped up his work with Manila this semester. Joses worked with mentors Goutham Pacha Ravi and Carlos Silva to get real world experience while working on his degree. He recorded a presentation about his experience as part of his final.
• The VMware to OpenStack Working Group is starting back up with an aim to update the VMware/OpenStack comparison chart as well as document use cases around SAP and Oracle workloads running on OpenStack. This working group is for OpenInfra Foundation Members. For more information, email Jimmy McArthur.
• If you’re interested in joining the global collaboration around open source infrastructure, consider membership in the OpenInfra Foundation. Book a meeting with Jimmy McArthur today!

OpenInfra Summit Asia

On September 8-9, OpenInfra Summit Asia | KubeCon | CloudNativeCon | PyTorch Conference China will take place in Shanghai. This flagship event unites adopters, technologists, and community members from across the region to drive innovation in open-source infrastructure, cloud-native computing, and open-source AI around common, industry-wide use cases such as next-gen AI. Over two days, the OpenInfra community will collaborate with the PyTorch and CNCF communities across dozens of open technologies, including two of the most active open source projects to exist—Kubernetes and OpenStack—to shape the future of open source software and technology as a whole.

• Shanghai, China | Shanghai International Convention Center Oriental Riverside Hotel
• Register 
• Become a Sponsor | Contracts must be signed by July 17.

OpenStack

• Deployers and operators are encouraged to upgrade their Cyborg, Horizon, Ironic, Keystone, Neutron and Swift versions for several new important security fixes. As always, consult the OpenStack Security site and subscribe to the OpenStack Announcements mailing list for the latest in official OpenStack Security Advisories and Security Notes.
• Running OpenStack? Share your feedback and deployment choices in the OpenStack User Survey. The deadline to be included in 2026 analysis is August 28, 2026. 

Kata Containers

• The new Kata Containers 3.31.0 release is now available! The community is working hard on the Kata Containers 4.0.0 release. If you’re curious about what the new major version of the runtime is going to bring you, check out the release preview blog post!!

OpenDev Collaboratory

• Opendev will upgrade Gerrit on review.opendev.org from version 3.12 to 3.13 on Friday June 5, 2026 at 1600 UTC. See the announcement for more information.

StarlingX

• Learn more about how the StarlingX community refreshed how authentication works in the 12.0 release of the platform with OIDC on the StarlingX blog.

Zuul

• See Monty Taylor’s article AI Agents Need CI/CD, Not Root Access recently published to the Zuul Blog, for a CI/CD and code review approach to LLM agent isolation.
• Join an episode of OpenInfra Live on June 11 at 1400 UTC (9am CT) to explore how the principles behind Zuul's architecture map directly to today's AI workflows, why trusted automation matters more than ever, and what AI builders can learn from a decade of operating complex autonomous systems at scale.

More OpenInfra Community Events

• OpenStack Booth at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India  | 18-19 June

  • Booth # SU4
  • Register for the evening event

• OpenInfra + KCD Vietnam | 25 July

  • Learn More | Register

• OpenInfra Track at the ALASCA Summit | 3 & 4 November

  • CFP open until 31 July

Visit 2026 OpenInfra events for a full list of gatherings. For more information, contact [email protected].