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OpenStack celebrates 15 years powering 45 million cores

08 ottobre 2025
Riportato dall'IA

OpenStack, the open-source cloud platform launched in 2010, marks its 15th anniversary amid robust growth. It now supports over 45 million cores in production worldwide. The project is shifting focus toward AI and confidential computing under Linux Foundation governance.

OpenStack was launched in 2010 by NASA and Rackspace to address vendor lock-in in cloud computing. Over the past 15 years, it has evolved from an experimental platform into a reliable standard for mission-critical workloads. Today, it powers more than 45 million cores across thousands of global organizations, as highlighted in its anniversary milestone.

Canonical has played a pivotal role since the project's early days, ranking as the second-largest contributor with over five million lines of code, thousands of commits, and numerous code reviews. In 2014, Canonical introduced its OpenStack distribution to ease private cloud adoption. According to the 2024 OpenStack User Survey, 54% of OpenStack clouds operate on Ubuntu Server, the preferred OS. More than 500 production clouds use Canonical's distribution with Ubuntu Pro support.

The platform's maturity is evident in its deployment for high-stakes applications, including sophisticated AI/ML workloads and telco network function virtualization (NFV). As it pivots to emerging technologies like AI and confidential computing, OpenStack remains governed by the Linux Foundation.

Looking forward, Canonical is advancing Project Sunbeam, described as a reimagined OpenStack that is 'composable yet opinionated by default, enterprise-grade yet simple to deploy, and capable of running anywhere, at any scale.' Canonical reaffirmed its commitment, stating it has supported the project through 'every architectural shift, every release, every challenge.' The company added, 'We are more optimistic now about its future than we have ever been before.'

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