Despite being a very different year than most, the Open Infrastructure community, which has over 110,000 community members, made it a productive and successful year. We could not have done this without each and every one of you.
One of the biggest milestones that happened in the global community last year was that OpenStack, one of the top three most active open source projects with 15 million cores in production, marked its 10th anniversary in 2020.
OpenStack is undoubtedly a success. Millions of CPU cores of computing infrastructure are provided through OpenStack. More than 70 regions of public clouds powered by OpenStack are available for users worldwide. Last year saw our 22nd (on-time) release, with more than 20,000 changes merged in only 5 months. A level of activity that placed OpenStack among the three most active open source development communities in the world.
Now, we are seeing users who have been around for years talk about their growing OpenStack production deployments like Workday, LINE, and CERN, as well as new users talk about how they’re running other open source projects in production like Ant Group using Kata Containers, Verizon running StarlingX, and Volvo running Zuul for their autonomous driving software.
The Open Infrastructure Foundation would like to extend a huge thanks to the global community for all of the work that went into 2020 and is continuing in 2021 to help people build and operate open infrastructure. Check out the OpenStack community’s achievements in 2020 from the OpenInfra Foundation Annual Report and join us to build the next decade of open infrastructure!
Let’s cheer on the new year and to the successful growth of the seeds planted over these past years.