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August 31, 2026

From GitLab SaaS to Full Sovereignty: Hosting GitLab in an OpenStack Cloud

The article explores how moving GitLab’s control plane into an OpenStack cloud creates greater digital sovereignty, while highlighting the trade-offs between control, complexity, and operational responsibility.

EL BOUKHARI Youcef
August 27, 2026

From NFV to a Company-Wide Cloud: KDDI’s OpenStack Journey with MShip3

At KDDI, we are promoting the operation and use of a unified private cloud across the entire company in order to ensure the stable and efficient operation of systems that provide a wide variety of services. In this article, we will introduce the overview and features of this private cloud!

Hiroshi Tsuji
August 17, 2026

We Made an OpenStack Cloud Tell Its Own Story

Logs, metrics and traces were everywhere, but the story was fragmented. Here’s how we used OpenTelemetry to connect the pieces and let OpenStack tell its own story.

Dai Pham Le Gia
August 13, 2026

Do the invisible security work, too

Open source security starts with secure defaults, but depends on informed operator decisions.

Jay Faulkner
August 12, 2026

ALASCA/SCS Sovereign Cloud for International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

By combining OpenStack with open source cloud technologies, ITU, dNation, and Vanilla Core created a sovereign platform that keeps public sector infrastructure open, portable, and under operator control

Martin Pilka
August 10, 2026

How the University at Buffalo Modernized Its Research Cloud with OpenStack

An academic computing center’s journey from managing OpenStack alone to a professionally supported private cloud serving over 100 research workloads.

Superuser
July 15, 2026

Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

Mayflower is one of the largest online platforms in its market, serving more than 500 000 000 monthly active users. The platform attracts a massive and highly engaged audience. Creating a highly interactive environment where thousands of real-time actions happen simultaneously.

Kendall Nelson
July 13, 2026

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

NCPI’s open infrastructure approach enables a fast, reliable, and low-cost payment system, built without vendor lock-in and at a scale most enterprises never approach.

Allison Price
June 29, 2026

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

Built to manage the explosive growth of open source contributions, Zuul’s project gating model is proving equally effective for AI-generated code.

Clark Boylan
June 28, 2026

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

How India’s Pinaka ZTi distribution demonstrates how hardened, validated OpenStack can deliver sovereign, government-grade cloud infrastructure by bridging the gap between upstream open source and production-ready enterprise deployments.

Ajith Narayanan

From GitLab SaaS to Full Sovereignty: Hosting GitLab in an OpenStack Cloud

From NFV to a Company-Wide Cloud: KDDI’s OpenStack Journey with MShip3

We Made an OpenStack Cloud Tell Its Own Story

Do the invisible security work, too

ALASCA/SCS Sovereign Cloud for International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

How the University at Buffalo Modernized Its Research Cloud with OpenStack

Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

OpenStack Delivers Efficiency, Cost Savings for Powering AI Workloads

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

Using Kata Containers as a Container Runtime in OpenStack Zun

Software Deployment Options in OpenStack: A Quick Guide

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From GitLab SaaS to Full Sovereignty: Hosting GitLab in an OpenStack Cloud

From NFV to a Company-Wide Cloud: KDDI’s OpenStack Journey with MShip3

We Made an OpenStack Cloud Tell Its Own Story

Do the invisible security work, too

ALASCA/SCS Sovereign Cloud for International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

How the University at Buffalo Modernized Its Research Cloud with OpenStack

Mayflower: A Hybrid Private Cloud as an AI Factory

How India’s Payment Backbone Runs on Open Source

Been There, Gated That: What AI Builders Can Learn From a Decade of Open Source CI

When OpenStack Meets Governments: How Pinaka ZTi Builds Sovereign Clouds Governments Can Actually Trust

OpenStack Delivers Efficiency, Cost Savings for Powering AI Workloads

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

Using Kata Containers as a Container Runtime in OpenStack Zun

Software Deployment Options in OpenStack: A Quick Guide

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