Reports Of OpenStack's Death Greatly Exaggerated
The Next Platform, Thursday, June 15,2023
OpenStack, the venerable open source cloud controller born in 2010 out projects pulled together by Rackspace Hosting and NASA, continues to push on despite its death being predicted myriad times over the past several years.
There are those who say its time has passed, with hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google continuing to expand their public cloud environments deeper into on-premises enterprise datacenters with tools like Outposts, Azure Stack, and Anthos, and established vendors like VMware muscle their way into the cloud.
Others, including OpenInfra Foundation, which maintains OpenStack and several other projects, see a technology that is evolving with the times, growing its presence in new regions around the world and in new areas in IT, including processors, with chip vendors like Nvidia, Arm, and Graphcore coming in as OpenInfra members, as well as telecom, with companies like Verizon and vendors like Ericsson embracing the infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud.