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April 3, 2025

OpenStack Ops Meetup: A History of Collaboration and the Upcoming Project Teams Gathering (PTG)

The OpenStack Ops Meetup has become a cornerstone event for the OpenStack community, serving as a vital hub for operators, engineers, and contributors to come together, share knowledge, and collaborate on the complexities of managing and deploying OpenStack environments.
Chris Morgan
Helena Spease
April 2, 2025

Streamlining OpenStack Upgrades: Managing Scalability, Efficiency, and Compliance at Cleura

Upgrading OpenStack at scale is a complex and challenging task, but through the implementation of SLURP and a shift to less frequent, more deliberate upgrade cadences, organizations like Cleura can achieve more efficient and stable upgrade processes.

Allison Price
March 31, 2025

Why OpenStack Is Still Walmart’s Private Cloud of Choice — 1 Million+ Cores Later

At OpenInfra Days North America, Walmart shared how their OpenStack footprint has grown over the past ten years from thousands of compute cores to well over 1 million.

Helena Spease
March 28, 2025

How to scan your OpenStack environment to quickly identify potential security risks

In this article, we will discuss a script I developed myself that will automatically scan your OpenStack environment to quickly identify potential security risks and generate reports in HTML and JSON formats. You can access the script on GitHub and experience it now!

Mertcan Kondur
March 26, 2025

FIFGROUP’s Cloud Upgrade: How FishOS Simplified VMware to OpenStack Migration

Migrating a complex virtual environment without disruptions is no small task, especially for financial institutions that must balance scalability and efficiency with stability. Discover how Sardina Systems helped PT Federal International Finance (FIFGROUP) smoothly transition from a VMware cluster to an OpenStack-based FishOS cloud infrastructure, boosting performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Superuser
March 10, 2025

From VMware to OpenStack: Why Open Source is Winning the Virtualization Battle

If you’re contemplating a migration from VMware, check out the takeaways from this panel of industry experts on OpenInfra Live.

Allison Price
February 24, 2025

Addressing Digital Sovereignty: STACKIT’s OpenStack Solution for Secure, Compliant Cloud Computing

STACKIT, the cloud and colocation provider of Schwarz Group, has fully embraced the concept of digital sovereignty by leveraging OpenStack.

Allison Price
February 13, 2025

How to Implement an OpenStack-Based Private Cloud with Kolla-Ansible – Part 2

In this blog post, we’ll finish deploying an OpenStack infrastructure with Kolla Ansible, focusing on how this tool simplifies and empowers large-scale cloud service management.

EL BOUKHARI Youcef
January 31, 2025

How to Implement an OpenStack-Based Private Cloud with Kolla-Ansible – Part 1

In this blog post, we’ll dive into deploying an OpenStack infrastructure with Kolla Ansible, focusing on how this tool simplifies and empowers large-scale cloud service management.

EL BOUKHARI Youcef
December 10, 2024

From Concept to Code: Building the Deactivate/Reactivate Feature in OpenStack Horizon

Ever wondered how complex features get built in massive open-source projects? Follow the detailed path of implementing image deactivation in OpenStack Horizon.

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