The OpenInfra Member: VMware Migration Working Group was formed earlier this year to help educate and inform organizations looking to move their workloads from VMware to OpenStack. As part of this effort, OpenInfra Foundation commissioned a white paper from IT reporter Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Migrating from VMware to OpenStack: Optimizing your Infrastructure to Save Money and Avoid Vendor-Lock-in.

In this paper, we explore the cost savings for customers affected by Broadcom’s pricing changes and how the OpenStack ecosystem has risen to the challenge of helping organizations move from VMware to OpenStack.

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OpenInfra Foundation News

• We are excited to welcome Rackspace as the newest OpenInfra Foundation Platinum Member! To date, Rackspace has contributed more than 5.6 million lines of code to OpenStack and is one of the largest OpenStack cloud providers in the world. We look forward to increasing our collaboration and the impact this will have on OpenStack and other OpenInfra communities! 
• The nomination period for the 2025 Individual Member election for the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors is now open! Nominate community members before the deadline, December 13, 2024
• It’s been a great year for OpenInfra Foundation Members in 2024. If you’re interested in expanding your organization’s reach in 2025, consider membership at the OpenInfra Foundation! Contact Jimmy McArthur today to find out more!

OpenStack: Open source software for creating private and public clouds

• Another productive Another productive Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is in the books! The October 2024 PTG took place from October 21 - 25. Check out the PTG recaps from the OpenStack teams! 

Kata Containers: The speed of containers, the security of VMs

• The Kata Containers community participated in the recent PTG, where contributors discussed ongoing work on improving the project’s CI/CD infrastructure, plans for the 4.0 release, and more. You can find an overview of the sessions on the project’s blog.
• The community concluded the Architecture Committee (AC) election, which happens twice a year to provide a staggered process to elect new leaders while keeping continuity in the leadership. Find out more about the new AC members on the Kata Containers blog.
• released 3.11 to provide a new, stable minor release for users who would like to keep up to date with the most recent developments within the project.
• Find more updates from the Kata Containers community on the project’s blog.

StarlingX: A fully featured cloud for the distributed edge

• The StarlingX community participated in the PTG, where contributors provided an overview of the work that has been done in the 10.0 release cycle so far, and shared plans for the 11.0 cycle. You can find an overview of the sessions on the project’s blog.
• The community concluded the Technical Steering Committee, Project Leads and Technical Leads elections. You can find the newly elected TSC members, as well as PLs and TLs in StarlingX project documentation.
• Find more updates from the StarlingX community on the project’s blog.

Zuul: Stop merging broken code

• Over the past several months, the Zuul team has released Zuul 11.1.0 and Nodepool 11.0.0. See the improvements these milestones bring on the Zuul blog!

Community Events

Upcoming OpenInfra and Community Events

OpenInfra Days North America 2025 

• Co-located with SCaLE in Pasadena, CA
• OpenInfra Days North America will take place on March 6 & 7, SCaLE will continue until March 9.
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For more information about OpenInfra community events, please contact [email protected].