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The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), formerly known as the OpenStack Foundation, has announced its integration into the Linux Foundation, thereby consolidating collaboration among some of the world’s most relevant open-source projects. This union will strengthen the position of OpenStack and other key projects in a context of accelerated transformation in the tech sector, driven by artificial intelligence, virtualization, and the demand for digital sovereignty.
OpenStack was born in 2010 from the collaboration between Rackspace and NASA, with the aim of creating an open alternative for managing infrastructure in private clouds. After years of ups and downs, the platform is once again experiencing growth driven by the search for alternatives to VMware following recent licensing changes from Broadcom. The integration into the Linux Foundation represents a natural step to reinforce its positioning and work collaboratively with other giants of open source such as Linux and Kubernetes.
The OpenInfra Foundation not only hosts OpenStack but also strategic projects such as Kata Containers, which specializes in creating secure containers; Airship, focused on software lifecycle management; Zuul, a continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) platform; and StarlingX, centered on edge computing.
Jonathan Bryce, CEO of OpenInfra, highlighted that “the data center infrastructure market is undergoing a fundamental reinvention, driven by the immense demand for AI and the migration from traditional virtualization environments. Collaborating with the Linux Foundation will allow us to combine resources and enhance our capacity to develop and deploy open solutions at scale.”
For his part, Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation, noted that this integration is the result of a long history of cooperation between the two organizations and represents a key step for the future of open source: “Bringing communities and projects together under one umbrella strengthens the ecosystem and multiplies opportunities for innovation.”
According to data from OpenInfra, the number of member organizations has increased by 15% over the past year, and projects like OpenStack, Kata Containers, and Zuul are experiencing notable growth. The global community of OpenInfra now includes over 110,000 members, demonstrating the weight and relevance of this strategic movement.
The integration into the Linux Foundation will allow the OpenInfra Foundation to leverage shared legal, security, and regulatory advocacy resources, which are particularly valuable in a context where regulations and geopolitical challenges shape the evolution of the tech sector.
Collaboration between projects like OpenStack, Kubernetes, PyTorch, and Ceph is already a reality in production environments in companies, governments, and research institutions. The formalization of this integration will facilitate the creation of modern, scalable infrastructures prepared for artificial intelligence, responding to the current and future needs of the global market.
With this move, OpenStack and the rest of the OpenInfra projects are embarking on a new phase under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, reinforcing the open-source ecosystem’s commitment to innovation, cooperation, and building open infrastructures for the next decade.
Sources: OpenInfra and Techcrunch